Dungeons & Dragons Online

Update 81: Terror of Demogorgon Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 81: Terror of Demogorgon, released on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026.

Of Special Note:

Terror of Demogorgon has arrived!

Descend into the depths of the Underdark in the newest Dungeons & Dragons Online expansion. Explore Gravenhollow, an ancient Stone Giant library turned last refuge against the madness consuming the deep. Demon Lords roam freely, spreading ruin and insanity wherever they go, and the factions that once held this realm together are tearing each other apart. Rally unlikely allies and gather the components for a desperate ritual to banish the fiends. Confront Demogorgon himself before his rampage tears the world apart from below!

• Navigate sprawling grottos, fungal forests, and ancient ruins across the Underdark.

• Broker uneasy truces in the madness-stricken trading post of Mantol-Derith.

• Infiltrate the Drow city of Menzoberranzen to pull off a daring heist inside the wizard tower of Sorcere.

• Survive encounters with Baphomet, Yeenoghu, Graz'zt, Zuggtmoy, and the two-headed terror himself: Demogorgon.

Terror of Demogorgon brings the level cap of Dungeons & Dragons Online to 36! Twelve quests are currently available that are CR 11 on Heroic Difficulty and CR 37 on Legendary difficulty. A thirteenth quest will debut on August 19th, 2026, and our next raid will debut in the near future. Terror of Demogorgon also includes a Wilderness Area that supports quest difficulty.

Get more information about Terror of Demogorgon on DDO.com!

Terror of Demogorgon is available to purchase in the DDO Market, and a purchase is required for access. Begin your journey by speaking with Edimar the Gravenhollow Guide in Eveningstar, northeast of the burned Temple of Amaunator.

News and Notes:

Essence Crafting:

• Essence Crafting now supports up to level 36 items.

• The Dissolve window has been updated to be much faster. The new flow works similar to a Shop window, with three buttons at the bottom: Add Junk, Clear, and Dissolve.

• Add Junk adds all items eligible to be dissolved that have been marked as Junk to the Dissolve window, much like the Add All button works for regular selling. Items are eligible to be Dissolved if they are not Sentient, have no slotted Augments, and have no Mythic or Reaper bonuses.

• **Clear **removes any items in your Dissolve shopping cart.

• Dissolve consumes all items in your Dissolve cart and grants you Essence Crafting XP and Magic Item Essences. Instead of requiring Dissolvers, the new Dissolve will simply charge you platinum based on the minimum level of the item being Dissolved.

• Items can also be double-clicked or added to the Dissolve list box the same way you can in any Sell window.

• The maximum Essence Crafting level has been increased from 400 to 500.

• More than 100 new recipes are available between levels 400 and 500. These recipes are Split-Prefix, meaning they apply two effects to the Prefix slot. These prefixes have a minimum level of 20. A new tier of collectibles has been added in content above level 31 to support these new recipes. NOTE: These recipes can only be applied to craftable blanks that were created AFTER the release of Update 81. A blank that is already keyed for crafting will need to be Disjuncted again for it to be eligible for these recipes.

• The Insightful Spell Power Shard has been adjusted to be able to be used as an Extra slot affix for Rings.

• An Insightful Spell Focus Mastery Shard is also now available which can be an Extra slot for Headgear and Trinkets.

Enhancements:

• The Sorcerer’s Awaken Weakness enhancement in Tier 5 of their trees now have a cooldown of two seconds, and their animation has been updated to match the new Piercing feats.

• Tiefling’s Tree Scorch will now apply its strip before its damage, similar to the Iconic Eladrin enhancement tree spells.

• Duergar Mindcleaver’s Mind’s Edge attack now deals +20% damage and has adjusted sound and VFX for bigger impact.

• The visual overlay on weapons from Duergar Mindcleaver’s Imbue with Mind should now consistently override other VFX systems.

Feats:

• New Feats are now available to support the level cap increase to 36! The new feats are:

• Legendary Spell Focus: ML 30+, Requires Epic Spell Focus. +3 to all Spell DCs.

• Epic Precision: ML 21+, Requires Precision. Your Precision stance grants an additional +5% to-hit and +15% Fortification Bypass.

• Epic Resiliance: ML 21+, Requires Resilience. While in Resilience, you gain an additional +4 Saving Throws, as well as +10 Magical Resistance Rating and +10 Magical Resistance Rating cap. In addition you no longer fail any saves automatically by rolling a natural one.

• Epic Power Attack: ML 21+, Requires Power Attack. While in Power Attack, you gain an additional +5 damage.

• Legendary Martial Arts: ML 30+, Requires Improved Martial Arts. While centered, your weapons gain +1W.

• Legendary Sneak Attack: ML30+, Requires Improved Sneak Attack. +3 Sneak Attack Dice

• Improved Inspiration Melody: Excellence: ML 30+, Requires Inspiration Melody: Excellence. Your Inspire Excellence now grants an additional +2 to all Ability Scores.

• Legendary Trick Shot: ML 30+, Requires Trick Shot. Your Trick Shot now grants +80 to Ranged Power and +10 to Attack for 4 seconds when you Tumble. In addition, your Tumble charges recharge an additional 0.5 second faster, for a total of 1 second.

• Strength of Arms: ML 20+. Your melee strikes grant a temporary Hit Point shield equal to your melee power. Has an 8 second cooldown, Shield lasts 10 seconds, stacks 2 times.

• Legendary Strength of Arms: ML 30+, Requires Strength of Arms. Your melee strikes grant a temporary HP shield equal to twice your melee power. Has a 6 second cooldown. Shield lasts 10 seconds, stacks 3 times.

• Piercing Fire: ML 1+, Requires Magical Training. Activate to apply a debuff to a single target removing all of its ability to resist this element for 15 seconds. 2 second cooldown.

• Piercing Cold: ML 1+, Requires Magical Training. Activate to apply a debuff to a single target removing all of its ability to resist this element for 15 seconds. 2 second cooldown.

• Piercing Acid: ML 1+, Requires Magical Training. Activate to apply a debuff to a single target removing all of its ability to resist this element for 15 seconds. 2 second cooldown.

• Piercing Electric: ML 1+, Requires Magical Training. Activate to apply a debuff to a single target removing all of its ability to resist this element for 15 seconds. 2 second cooldown.

• Piercing Poison: ML 1+, Requires Magical Training. Activate to apply a debuff to a single target removing all of its ability to resist this element for 15 seconds. 2 second cooldown.

• Piercing Negative Energy: ML 1+, Requires Magical Training. Activate to apply a debuff to a single target removing all of its ability to resist this element for 15 seconds. 2 second cooldown.

• Piercing Mastery Fire: ML 20+, Replaces Piercing Fire. 20 second duration, 2 second cooldown. An enchantment that neutralizes immunity or absorption for this damage type on your target and enemies near them. This does not affect resistance flat reductions.

• Piercing Mastery Cold: ML 20+, Replaces Piercing Cold. 20 second duration, 2 second cooldown. An enchantment that neutralizes immunity or absorption for this damage type on your target and enemies near them. This does not affect resistance flat reductions.

• Piercing Mastery Electric: ML 20+, Replaces Piercing Electric. 20 second duration, 2 second cooldown. An enchantment that neutralizes immunity or absorption for this damage type on your target and enemies near them. This does not affect resistance flat reductions.

• Piercing Mastery Acid: ML 20+, Replaces Piercing Acid. 20 second duration, 2 second cooldown. An enchantment that neutralizes immunity or absorption for this damage type on your target and enemies near them. This does not affect resistance flat reductions.

• Piercing Mastery Poison: ML 20+, Replaces Piercing Poison. 20 second duration, 2 second cooldown. An enchantment that neutralizes immunity or absorption for this damage type on your target and enemies near them. This does not affect resistance flat reductions.

• Piercing Mastery Negative Energy: ML 20+, Replaces Piercing Negative Energy. 20 second duration, 2 second cooldown. An enchantment that neutralizes immunity or absorption for this damage type on your target and enemies near them. This does not affect resistance flat reductions.

• Piercing Feats cost 2 Spell Points each to use, and they are not considered spells. They cast slightly slower than a Quickened spell.

• Bulwark of Defense is now: When in a defensive stance, you gain an additional +2 to all Saving Throws, +5% Armor Class, and +10 Melee Power. This feat now works while in Nature’s Protector’s stance.

• Spell Focus Feats are being adjusted to make attaining Spell DCs easier:

• Spell Focus: +1 to a single spell school

• Greater Spell Focus: Requires Spell Focus. +2 to a single spell school

• Epic Spell Focus: Requires any Greater Spell Focus feat, no class requirements. ML 21. +2 to all spell schools

• Spell Focus Speciality: Requires Epic Spell Focus. ML 31. +3 to a single spell school, may not select one you have a Spell Focus feat for.

• Legendary Spell Focus: Requires Epic Spell Focus. ML 30. +3 to all spell schools

• All players with existing copies of Epic Spell Focus and Spell Focus Specialty have received Feat Respec Tokens.

• We have corrected a bug that allowed players to “double up” by selecting a school they already had the Spell Focus feat for.

• Spell Penetration Feats have also been updated:

• Greater Spell Penetration now grants +4 Spell Penetration.

• Epic Spell Penetration now grants +6 Spell Penetration.

Items:

• We've made a suite of new item effects for the loot in this expansion. These largely resemble some existing effects, such as Paralyzing and Telekinetic, but use a system that lets us create them with level-appropriate DCs more easily.

• There are two kinds of crafting in this expansion: Items that drop with **Nearly Completed **effects, allowing you to select a 4th affix, and Catalyst Crafting, in which you collect Rare Abyssal Catalysts and Deep Catalyst ingredients and combine them with legacy Named Items to create powerful new versions.

• **Nearly Completed Items: **If you are familiar with **Nearly Finished **in previous content, this is a very similar system. There are six kinds of Nearly Completed present on items in this expansion:

• Spell School: This allows you to craft on an Equipment bonus to your choice of Spell School.

• Skill: This allows you to craft on an Exceptional Bonus to a group of skills based on an ability score of your choice (Strength skills, Intelligence skills, etc.)

• Healing Amplification: This allows you to craft your choice of Competence Bonus to Positive Amplification, Enhancement Bonus to Repair Amplification, or Profane Bonus to Negative Amplification.

• Ability Score: This allows you to craft on your choice of Enhancement Bonus to Ability Score.

• Insightful Ability Score: This allows you to craft on your choice of Insight Bonus to Ability Score.

• Quality Ability Score: This allows you to craft on your choice of Quality Bonus to Ability Score.

• You will collect Abyssal Gems (Bound to Account) from chests, then use those with these items in a crafting station.

• **Rare Catalysts & Catalyst Crafting: **The powers of the Abyss and Underdark are manifesting in strange ways. The Rare Items in this expansion pack's chests are **Abyssal Catalysts and Deep Catalysts. **Each of these thirty items relates to a specific item from DDO's history, and when the two are brought together, they can be combined into a powerful new form at either ML11 (for Heroic Catalyst ingredients) or ML35 (for Legendary Catalyst ingredients).

• To do so, you will need one of the Rare Catalysts along with the specific named item it is associated with - In some cases, this may require the Heroic version of the item for crafting a Heroic item and the Epic or Legendary version for crafting the Legendary one. You will also need a number of Abyssal Gems. Creating the item will consume all of the ingredients, including the named item, to create the new item.

Wilderness Areas:

• Terror of Demogorgon supports a wilderness area with quest difficulty options:

• The Slayer quests are the same as other wilderness areas, but you get more credit per enemy defeated on higher difficulties, with a 75% bonus cap in Reaper.

• XP for Rare quests are also increased on higher difficulties.

• Explorer XP does not change on higher difficulties.

• Landscape chests increase their drop rate per standard difficulty rules.

• Mythic and Reaper bonuses on rewards are possible.

• There is no “Reaper lock out” for wilderness areas, and there is also not a “10 kill minimum”. However, you do not earn Reaper XP in wilderness areas.

Minor Features and Balance Changes:

• Adjustments have been made to the action flow that have made Alchemist color-changing abilities much more reactive on use.

• Non-raid Filigree now have prettier icon borders.

• Righteous Command now accepts the Extend Metamagic feat.

• The drop rate of Elemental Victory in Temple of Elemental Evil: Depths of the Temple has been increased.

• The weapon stats panel in the Inventory UI will now display No Ammo if the player does not have ammunition equipped in the ammo slot.

• Helmed Horrors no longer heal from force damage but are simply immune to force damage.

• The duration of the “blindness” spell now only lasts 12 seconds when applied to a player

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed backwards trap boxes in the quests Grim and Barrett, The Devil's To Pay, Creeping Death, and Brothers of the Forge.

• Horn of Thunder can now properly be cast directionally.

• Fixed a typo in several NPCs' dialogue:

• Summer Korranor

• Adamor Thellik

• Ursa Jernsvard

• Viggie Storr

• Hekta Szind

• Fixed a typo in the Summer Court Patron's mail communications.

• The Eye of Mabar now heals you if you are a Warforged or Bladeforged.

• Certain Henshin Mystic effects are now hidden on the buff bar.

• Certain item effects are now properly hidden on the buff bar.

• Hands of the Sentinel from Unyielding Sentinel now properly allows you to use your character level for Lay On Hands.

• Black Dragonborn Breath from the Dragonborn tree now properly uses your Conjuration DCs.

• Shintao cores 5 and 6 now properly boost your damage dice while centered.

• Adjusted the tooltips for Handwraps damage dice boosts and Centered Weapon damage dice boosts so that they properly say what they are actually doing.

• Batallion Brew now properly works with Throwing Hammers.

• Fixed a typo in the Lamordia tome of Universal Action Points.

• Violence Begets Violence is now much quieter in the combat log.

• Rotated some trap boxes in:

• A Miner Sacrifice

• Haunted Library

• The Proper Authorities

• Trick Shot now properly reduces your Tumble charge cooldown.

• Removed some old info from the Righteous Command spell tooltip.

• Using a Mirror of Glamouring on a one-handed weapon that has been made Sentient no longer locks the resulting cosmetic to your main hand.

• Eldritch Burst and Spirit Blast once again allow movement.

• The Sphere of Waves now correctly applies its Orb bonus.

• Vistani Knife Fighter’s Single Dagger ability now lasts through death.

• Ghost Wolf and Go For the Kill now display their SP costs.

• Visage of Terror now has a slightly more accurate tooltip.

• Several cosmetic feats now correctly persist through reincarnation.

• You can use Throwing Weapons in Eldritch Devices again.

• Not Half Bad in Arcane Trickster now correctly checks for melee or ranged weapons.

• An issue has been corrected with Earth Elemental attacks.

• Favored Soul Angel of Vengeance’s enhancement “Just Reward” now grants the modern version of Spellcasting Implement.

• The debuff effect for Vrock Spores no longer have incorrect line breaks.

• Corrected a typo in Black Dragon Bolt’s damage over time description.

• Helm Horrors are now only immune to force damage instead of healing from it.

• A client crash in Castle Ravenloft caused by some improperly configured deco has been fixed.

• Various targeting issues with some enemies in entrances where they should be attackable have been fixed.

• Gallows Speakers are no longer incorrectly immune to acid.

• Sub-slimes that split from slime enemies will no longer spawn Reapers or become Champions.

Engineering Changes:

• The Crafting page in your character sheet is now formatted much more nicely.

Known Issues:

• Some of Zuggtmoy’s voiceover in the quest “The Fetid Wedding” is placeholder and will be replaced at a later date.

• Some of the young Purple Worms in the quest “The Price of an Egg” are a bit too exuberantly loud; their volume will be adjusted later.

• Some notes only display text the first time you click on them.

Update 80 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 80, released on Wednesday, June 17th, 2026.

Of Special Note:

The Underdark, a World Beneath the World

The Abyss Has Come to Claim It

Descend into the depths of the Underdark in the newest Dungeons & Dragons Online expansion. Explore Gravenhollow, an ancient Stone Giant library turned last refuge against the madness consuming the deep. Demon Lords roam freely, spreading ruin and insanity wherever they go, and the factions that once held this realm together are tearing each other apart. Rally unlikely allies and gather the components for a desperate ritual to banish the fiends. Confront Demogorgon himself before his rampage tears the world apart from below!

Harness the resilience of the new Duergar race, brave thirteen deadly dungeons and a brutal new raid as you face the dark beneath the surface. Pre-purchase Terror of Demogorgon now to gain immediate access to the Duergar race, the Mindcleaver Iconic, and exclusive cosmetics!

Get more information about Terror of Demogorgon here!

Key Features

• Forge Your Path as a Duergar

• Unlock the all-new Duergar playable race! Born in the sunless caverns beneath the world, the Duergar are as tough and unyielding as the stone around them. Play as the Mindcleaver Iconic and conjure devastating Mindcleaver axes that shatter the will of your enemies on every strike.

• Explore the Underdark's Hidden Caverns

• Navigate sprawling grottos, fungal forests, and ancient ruins across the Underdark. Broker uneasy truces in the madness-stricken trading post of Mantol-Derith. Infiltrate the Drow city of Menzoberranzen to pull off a daring heist inside the wizard tower of Sorcere. Every shadow hides danger and discovery.

• Face the Demon Lords

• Battle legendary fiends ripped straight from the Abyss. Survive encounters with Baphomet, Yeenoghu, Graz'zt, Zuggtmoy, and the two-headed terror himself: Demogorgon. The Demon Lords have brought madness to the Underdark, and only you can send them back.

• Level Cap Raised to 36

• The Demon Lords won't fall to the unprepared. Push your characters to new heights of power to match the horrors waiting in the dark.

• Thirteen Dungeons and a Thrilling Raid

• Take on a gauntlet of new adventures across CR 11 Heroic and CR 37 Legendary quests as you hunt down the components to banish the Demon Lords back to the Abyss. Will your party survive what waits below?

• Get More with Collector's or Ultimate Fan Bundles

• Instantly unlock powerful items, sinister cosmetics, and exclusive bonuses with the Collector's or Ultimate Fan Bundles. Choose your edition and plunge into the Terror of Demogorgon!

Once purchased, you can claim your in-game items by speaking with a Dragonborn NPC named Naarell, who is located in the Eberron Hall of Heroes and in Eveningstar in the Forgotten Realms near the burned temple. You may speak with Naarell at any time to claim your items.

News and Notes:

Duergar and Iconic Duergar Mindcleaver:

• We have created an article on DDO.com that delves into the enhancement trees, Past Lives and more for both the Duergar and Iconic Duergar Mindcleaver. Find our guide on DDO.com.

• Dwarf Race Adjustments: In conjunction with the new Duergar, we're also making the following changes to the base Dwarf's tree:

• Tier 3: The hole here now contains Multiselector: Favored Enemy: Vermin / Giant / Monstrous Humanoid.

• Child of the Mountain is now 1 Action Point per rank.

• The movement speed penalty on Stand Like Stone is now 20% (was 50%).

• Hands of Stone now uses Stun DCs instead of Transmutation.

• The base DC of Hands of Stone now starts at 14 (was 10).

• Dwarven Axe Training 4 now also adds a +1 Competence Bonus to Critical Threat Range with Dwarven Waraxes.

• Dwarven Pick & Hammer Training 4 now also adds a +1 Competence Bonus to Critical Threat Range with Warhammers and Heavy Picks.

Features and Balance Changes​

• Cosmetic Teleportation is now available! Included in your pre-purchase of Terror of Demogorgon is a cosmetic teleportation item that when consumed will display as a Feat. Toggling this Feat will adjust which animation is used when teleporting.

• Adjustments are being made to the duration of various teleportation items to standardize the system:

• Teleport spells are now a standing induction that can be interrupted by movement (channel duration matches the current channel time of the expansion teleport items). They can no longer be Quickened.

• The Key to Eveningstar now has a 20 second cooldown.

• The D12 Stormreach teleportation item now has a cooldown of 20 seconds.

• All expansion teleportation items now have a cooldown of 20 seconds.

• All teleport inductions are now 2.5 seconds instead of 4 seconds.

• Use Magic Device checks on scrolls now rolls much earlier in the animation cycle.

• None of these changes affect the Dimension Door Spell.

• The values of certain loot affixes have been adjusted to significantly boost the rate at which items contribute to Spell DCs. These changes are being made to make it easier to build up a DC caster, especially in a character's Legendary levels.

• Bonuses found on random loot, crafted loot, and named loot that contribute directly to spell DCs have been increased. This increase includes any item that uses our scaling system, which also includes things like Dinosaur Bone and Viktranium crafting. This increase is focused on the three main channels for Spell DC boosts - Equipment, Insightful, and Quality. Items currently in circulation will update to the new values automatically.

• This increase starts out smaller in the heroic levels but increases significantly after reaching level 30.

• Both single-school effects (Such as Necromancy Focus) and all-school effects (Such as Spell Focus Mastery) have been adjusted.

• We have also adjusted how these effects compare to one another; after these changes, single-school bonuses will always be higher than or equal to their all-school counterparts.

• We have also adjusted the bonuses on the Heroic and Legendary ring Argonnessen Eye Band to be Sacred-typed to help cut down on typing complexity.

• We have adjusted the bonuses on the Level 16 and Level 24 Topaz Augments that grant bonuses to Spell DCs to further help cut down on type complexity. These augments will now provide a +5 at level 16 and a +6 at level 24 Equipment bonus to their respective spell school.

• As an example, an item currently statted for level 34 would have Spell Focus Mastery values of a +5 Equipment bonus to all spell DCs. With these changes, that same item will instead provide a +8 Equipment bonus.

• As another example, an item currently statted for level 34 would have Necromancy Focus values of +6 Equipment, +3 Insight, and +1 Quality. With these changes, that same item will instead provide +12 Equipment, +6 Insight, and +3 Quality.

• The Accelerate Spell Metamagic feat now protects applicable spells from being interrupted when taking damage.

• Randall Lyric now appears in two new locations (Myth Drannor and Lamordia) with a new selection of augments to trade!

• Items found during the Symphony of the Fey event have lost their event exclusive borders.

• Going forward, while an event with equipment restrictions is active, only those players playing with those restrictions will see the event-exclusive warning overlays, and they will only see them over items that would provide a penalty.

• This means that during any other equipment restriction event, players not participating in the event will not see any changes with their items, either new or existing.

• It also means that if you are playing with those restrictions, you'll be warned for items that are invalid for you, so you'll not see anything over gear that is valid for your usage

• Items will continue to drop with the "souvenir" effects, and those effects will continue to persist, as a fun reminder of the world-shifting nature of these immersive experiences!

• New Filigree have been released!

• There are 6 new Generation 3 Raid Filigree and 2 new Generation 2 Raid Filigree.

• Divinity/Ultimate Fury: +2 Str (Rare: +4 PRR)

• Shadowstrike/Bend Fate: +2 Dex (Rare: +4 PRR)

• Technomage/Unbreakable: +2 Con (Rare: +4 PRR)

• Lunar Magic/Serpent: +2 Int (Rare: +4 MRR)

• Abiding Path/Elemental Avatar: +2 Wis (Rare: +4 MRR)

• Keeper of the Curse/Angelic Wings: +2 Cha (Rare: +4 MRR)

• Final Burial/Coalesced Magic: +2 Wis (Rare: +4 PRR)

• City's Beacon/Enlightened Step: +2 Str (Rare: +4 PRR)

• The split-prefix Unbound Crafting recipes within Essence Crafting have been temporarily removed from the game. They will return in a future update!

• Reduced the number of enemies in some groups in the quest "Just Business".

• Adjusted lighting and decor in the quests "Blown Deadline" and "House of Pain" to make certain valves and levers easier to spot.

Bug Fixes​

• The augment Miserable: Force Absorption's tooltip now displays the correct amount of force absorption.

• The Helm of Workplace Safety now has flavor text.

• Charm Monster: Mass for Bards now accepts the Embolden Metamagic feat.

• Inflict Wounds admixtures can now accept the Embolden and Heighten Metamagic feats.

• A trap box in Amber Temple has been rotated correctly.

• Solar gems of Threat Decrease now work on ranged and spell damage instead of just melee.

• The Claw combat style now properly works with the Dark Imbuement and the Living Shadow feat.

• Death Attack in Dark Hunter now more reliably applies its debuff.

• For Cormyr! now lasts its intended duration.

• A misbehaving pillar found in the Blue Water Inn has been reattached to the wall.

• Soul Eater's Devour the Soul debuff is now visible when examining enemies.

• Miscellaneous debuff icons and strings have been fixed for all Warlock enhancement trees.

• Certain augments that provide Spell Penetration now correctly report their typing.

• Dark Hunter's Smoke Trap now correctly applies to bosses.

• Alchemist's on-hit imbue spells now correctly apply to bosses.

• Sacred Fists' Radiant Servant 6th core now correctly functions.

• Violence Begets Violence is now properly min level 12.

• Rapid Condensation no longer requires Spell Resistance.

• Corrode Weapons now correctly reduces accuracy.

• Caustic Overload and Voltaic Burst can now reapply its own debuff without waiting for the debuff to expire.

• Form of the Lord Vampire in Dhampir now stays through death.

• The Disintegrate spell no longer pretends to be Dust to Dust.

• Eladrin Chaosmancer core abilities now persist through death.

• The Death Ward spell is now properly Shield typed.

• Energy Sheathe Negative now functions as intended.

• Rejuvenation Cocoon no longer breaks invisibility.

• Dragonborn Males can now fire dual crossbow special attacks.

• True Resurrection's spell name has been fixed in the resurrection pop-up.

• The Serpent sentient set now properly gives +2 to its DCs.

• The Thornlord longbow now has a more immersive tooltip.

• Fixed a variety of typos in many quests.

• The door to the optional in Locked Away part 2 is now named correctly and sends you to the correct place.

• Certain past lives no longer give an enormous amount of saving throws for no reason.

• Magical Recoil in Machrotechnic now functions as intended.

• Fixed some target mismatches in Arcane Trickster's stolen spells.

• You can now actually purchase returning throwing items from the test shops within the Test Dojo during our Lamannia previews.

• Fixed some incorrectly calculated DC math for Kata of Ice and Kata of Darkness.

• Spell Lore items now properly boost Poison Spell Critical Chance.

• Myth Drannor's Slayer quest no longer references Lamordia.

• Tiefling Male's tumble animations sync up with player movement much more reliably.

• It is no longer snowing in Saltmarsh.

• Adjusted the names of some Archetype past life feats to better organize them alphabetically.

• Grand Theft Aureon no longer removes your maximum tumble charges.

• Wisps are no longer invisible.

• Removed duplicate keybind setting for Epic Destinies that didn't do anything.

• Removed a floating airship tiedown from House Kundarak.

• Removed some floating cups from the Lamordia tavern.

• Adjusted a table in "The Same Old Song" to not be floating.

• Dhampir now display Thorn Knight and Thorn Kin visual effects.

• Crippling Strike now functions again.

• Dread Mist from Dark Bargainer now properly damages Undead enemies.

• Fixed some incorrect text in the Arcane Trickster character creation flow.

• The Alchemist Study feats now stack correctly and have color-appropriate icons.

• Ettercap Incursion, Relentless, and teleporting to Morgrave University Upper now have their correct loading screens.

• Alarphon's Mighty Spells deal damage again.

• Exiting the quest Dinosaur Crisis now places you in the correct location.

• Fixed a misbehaving trap box in Setting The Wards: The Patriarchs' Crypt.

• Restorative Drought now correctly flies towards allies when cast.

• The Legendary Omniscience Ring now correctly drops with Mythic Ring Bonus.

• Red augments of negative spell power now correctly state that they also boost Poison Spell Power.

• Dragon Lord's Past Life now provides its Breath Weapon DC bonuses.

• On-hit and on-spell effects that do not benefit from Spell Power no longer erroneously benefit from additional spell power from enabled Metamagics.

Engineering Changes​

• Certain UI elements such as the quest objective panel now have a more complete bottom right corner graphic.

• Spell Power, Spell Crit, and Spell Critical Damage now appear in the Details+ Tab.

• Adjustments have been made to how slotted Filigree set bonuses appear to ensure that all slotted Filigree set bonuses are visible.

• When examining an item, the names of Set Bonuses are now gold instead of teal.

• Rune Arm DC and Breath Weapon DC bonuses now appear in the Details+ Tab.

Known Issues:

• Iconic Heroes and Certain Races Erroneously Available to VIP: VIP accounts that do not have access to certain Iconic Heroes and races can currently create these races and iconic characters. This is unintended. When this issue is corrected, players who have been playing these races and Iconic Heroes without associated content ownership will no longer be able to access these characters until ownership is established.

Update 79.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 79.1, released on Wednesday, May 13th, 2026.

News and Notes:

• Back end system changes have been implemented to assist in server maintenance.

• The Shard Storm enhancement in the Primal Avatar tree now properly requires the upgrade enhancement in Tier 3 in order to grant its hit point buff.

• Quick Cutter now properly works with handwraps.

• The message "You have attained the Highest level in the Game" no longer displays when reaching level 30.

• Invasive Fey Flowers now have a hit box more appropriate for their size to make ranged weapons hit them more reliably.

Update 79.0.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 79.0.1, released on Thursday, April 16th, 2026.

News and Notes:

The Dragons' Hand

• Legendary difficulty dungeons now properly drop Sun/Moon Augments and Rare items.

• Copies of the Legendary Drysvayla's Axe that did not have their Returning property now do.

• Various typos and string table errors have been corrected.

• The "Ruin" card is no longer being described as the "Rogue" card.

• Searing Servants in "Wish Upon a Card" can now be properly hit by projectiles.

• One of the optional chests in Savaran's Fortress now gives the correct treasure.

• An issue in "Thrall of Duty" has been corrected that could break completion if one player was by the dragon when another player was in the House of Cards.

• Fixed an issue in "Thrall of Duty" where you could get the blue dragon to die in the fight against the Ogre Mage by not helping him.

• Fixed an issue in "Thrall of Duty" where the quest could be blocked by injuring the Ogre Mage too quickly.

• Invasive Fey Flowers now have a more appropriate hit box for their size to make range weapons hit more reliably.

Bug Fixes:

• The Arcane Trickster enhancement "My Favorite Bauble" now supports throwing daggers with no orb required.

• Corrected an issue where the Lifeshaper would train you as a monk instead of a rogue when performing a Lesser Reincarnation.

Update 79 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 79: The Dragon's Hand, released on Wednesday, April 8th, 2026.

New Quest Pack: The Dragon's Hand!

_A new quest pack is available: FREE to VIPs and available in the DDO Store! _

What's more powerful than a Dragon? A Dragon with a Deck of Many Things, one of the most powerful magic artifacts around. Several different Dragons have acquired Decks, and it's up to you to deal with the resulting chaos. Can you stack the deck in your favor, or will you end up folding? The Dragons' Hand Adventure Pack is level 10 on Heroic and level 36 on Legendary and contains five quests. The NPCs to acquire the quests can be found in the House Kundarak enclave in Eberron - just look for the Dragon in the plaza near the House Kundarak bank.

News and Notes:

Balance Changes and Small Features:

• Cannith Crafting has been renamed to "Essence Crafting".

• Essence Crafting is now available in Eveningstar.

• Essence Crafting now supports the creation of items level 33 and 34.

• All previously-released Patron Coffers and Expansions that have a cosmetic claim NPC now have the option to reclaim a mount or pet certificate.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with monster AI where certain monsters would sometimes go brain dead after being hit by a confusion effect.

• Two Weapon Defense now provides its +1 AC to Handwraps users.

• Lieutenant Rauva in Strike Back now requires the listed Diplomacy DC in her dialogue.

• Obscuring Mist in Dragon Disciple now lasts its intended duration.

• The Level 28 Topaz of Spell Penetration and the Level 32 Topazes of Melee and Ranged Power now properly drop from random loot.

• Paladin Vanguard's Action Boost: Power now triggers abilities that care about Action Boosts.

• Storm's Harness now has its correct border color and flavor text.

• The Icewalkers boots are now property Bound to Account.

• Legendary Experimental Rocket Boots (Minor Artifact Boots) are now properly Bound to Character.

• Fixed a typo in Black and Blue's DM text.

• Follow Up in Vanguard now lasts its intended duration of 30 seconds.

• The Elder's Knowledge set bonus now has its proper description in the buff bar.

• Fixed a bunch of tooltips in Lahar's Recipes.

• Fixed a string table error in Radiant Servant for both Cleric and Sacred Fist.

• The Legendary Gem of Many Facets now rolls for its correct Mythic boost.

• Snowslide now properly takes Stunning DC bonuses.

• Jaws of Winter now properly takes Stunning DC bonuses.

• Fixed a typo in Snowslide's description.

• Fixed the icons and names of a few Essence Crafting recipe related stacks of 15 collectibles.

• The items Nightforge Stiletto, Bloodletter's Knife, Threnalian Wardagger, Grievous Blade, Tenebrous Stiletto, Thunderforged Dagger, and Greensteel Daggers all now properly allow for Dexterity for to-hit and damage.

• Fixed some typos in the Eladrin and Chaosmancer racial tree.

• Fixed some typos in the Wild Mage enhancement tree.

• Scion of the Shadowfell's Negative Amplification no longer falls off on death.

• Nightshield now has a max caster level of 20.

• Healing Lore now has its proper name mutation for randomly generated items.

• Ameliorate now reliably applies its debuff to non-undead enemies and undead enemies that succeed on their saving throws.

• Elemental Weapons and Greater Elemental Weapons are now properly Crimsonite alchemist spells.

• The Double Daggers buff to offhand strike chance in Vistani Knife Fighter no longer falls off on death.

• Fixed a bunch of typos in Ravenloft quests.

• Epic Tinder now has its correct augment slots.

• Magic Missile cast from the Wizard past life feat does damage again.

• Arcane Trickster - Presto will no longer break certain quests if a critical monster that is normally immortal is presto'd.

• Dhampir's Jewelry Color and Aasimar's skin reflection color now properly save through character creation instead of returning to a default.

Engineering Changes:

• The class info shown during character selection no longer abbreviates the class name of single or dual-class characters above level 20.

• Feats that change which ability score contributes to a saving throw now correctly compute the highest of available scores to use with your saving throws.

• Split-Set Filigree that have been slotted into Sentient Slots 7 and 10 now properly provide their full set bonuses.

32-bit Worlds:

• Characters on the 32-bit game worlds who are in a "Reincarnate" state can now enter their 32-bit game world in order to reincarnate. Once reincarnated, these characters can now Pack and transfer. Read more about transfers from our 32-bit game worlds on DDO.com.

Update 78.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 78.1, released on Wednesday, March 11th, 2026.

News and Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• The maximum caster level for Magic Missile is now correctly set to level 20.

• Enemy versions of Magic Missile, Chain Missile, Force Missiles, Scorching Ray, and Frost Lance now scale correctly when they damage players.

• Certain spells were using damage progressions against players that were higher than they should be. This has been fixed.

• Chaos Hammer (if you are Lawful)

• Unholy Blight (if you are Good)

• Order's Wraith (if you are Chaotic)

• Produce Flame

• Great Shout

• Shout

• SunBurst (especially if you are Undead)

• Fixed graphical artifacts in No Refunds related to stencil shadows.

• Ruinous Schemes does not let warlocks block quest progression.

• Locked Away Part 2 does not let warlocks block quest progression.

• A Cry For Help no longer blocks quest progression if both levers are pulled simultaneously.

• Wrath of the Flame succubus is less of a public nuisance (lost her invincibility).

Arcane Trickster:

• The Past Life Icon has been corrected.

• Fixed the cooldown being reversed between Salt Ray and Soundburst stolen spells.

• Fixed an issue where the DC for the stolen spell Soundburst was not properly calculating based off of your Disable Device.

• Extra Hand now correctly reduces Metamagic costs for all spells, rather than only affecting spells in the Arcane Trickster's spell book.

• Sound VFX have been added to several of the Mage Hand animations.

• Fixed Disable Construct being mislabled in the Mechanic tree.

• The passive Dodge bonus for Slippery Magic now works.

• Arcane Ambush now works with snow ball swarm.

• Core 6 now grants its Imbue Dice correctly.

Time Flies:

• The Damage Reduction of certain monsters in Time Flies has been reduced on heroic difficutlies.

• Aussircaex now has a more dragon-worthy maximum hit point score.

• The mind flayer in the level 1 version of the quest now has a cold that prevents him from using most of his mind flayer crowd control abilities.

Update 78.0.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 78.0.1, released on Thursday, March 5th, 2026.

News and Notes:

• An initial process has been implemented to mitigate poor game performance in public areas and guild airships during higher population times.

• Level 36 items placed into Shared Banks, Character Banks, and Reincarnation Caches now display in list results.

Update 78 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 78: Natural 20, released on Wednesday, February 25th, 2026.

Of Special Note:

Celebrating 20 Years!

Dungeons & Dragons Online is celebrating its 20th Anniversary with free gifts, a new Anniversary dungeon, a new Anniversary public area, bonuses and boosts, the return of the 10th Anniversary event, Sterling's Remnant Rush, a new class archetype available for FREE for a limited time and more! Learn more about how we are celebrating 20 years with you on DDO.com: DDO.com/20th-anniversary

The Anniversary event begins February 25th and continues through March 31st, 2026. Sterling's Remnant Rush continues through March 2nd, 2027. Get started by speaking to Fred in either House Phiarlan by the Phiarlan Chapterhouse or in House Jorasco near...the other Fred? Find Fred in House Jorasco near the entrance into the Mists of Ravenloft.

The Arcane Trickster has arrived!

The Arcane Trickster is a new rogue class archetype that is free to everyone for a limited time! Find the Giver of Gifts on Anniversary Island to add the Arcane Trickster to your game account. You can claim Arcane Trickster for free through March 31st, 2026! The Arcane Trickster will be available afterwards in the DDO Store for points. Read more about the Arcane Trickster on DDO.com.

Get your free 20th Anniversary Cloak!

To pick up your first 20th Anniversary Cloak, speak to Weaver, Master of Cloaks, located just around the corner clockwise from Sterling the Strongbox. Once you acquire a cloak by speaking with Weaver, you can pick up additional cloaks for your account by interacting with Weaver In Training, Apprentice of Cloaks on the lower floor of the Hall of Heroes.

News and Notes:

Small features & balance changes:

• Force damage now interacts with Magic Resistance Rating normally.

• Sweeping Strikes for Thief Acrobat now uses the highest of STR/DEX/INT.

• Dark Ascendant Bite in Dhampir and Dark Bargainer now has a standardized DC (DC 16 + Highest of STR/CON/INT/CHA Mod + Stunning Bonuses + Enchantment Bonuses)

• Chain Missile Update:

• The Chain Missile spell has been revamped to fire 3 mini AOE blasts instead of a long chain of single target hits.

• New Spell Description: "Fires a cluster of three magical energy darts that unerringly strikes its target inflicting 4 to 5 force damage. Each missile striking your target explodes outwards, striking other creatures near the primary target in a small radius. D&D Dice: Each missile deals 1d2+3 force damage."

• Scorching Ray's bolts for players (not enemies) has been updated to do 7-12 damage per two caster levels, and its Max Caster Level has been set to 20. Scorching Ray's bolt progression has not changed.

• Frost Lance bolts for players (not enemies) has been updated to do 9-16 damage per two caster levels and its Max Caster Level has been set to 20. Frost Lance's bolt progression has not changed.

• Magic Missile and Chain Missile damage per missile for players now increases by 1 ever 2 caster levels, with a Max Caster Level of 20.

• Force Missile's damage is now 1d4+1 damage every 2 caster levels per missile. Force Missile's Max Caster Level is 20.

• Mantle of Invulnerability (used by liches and a few demons) no longer blocks spells by level, but instead grants 25 MRR. This effect is able to be dispelled.

• A fix has been implemented to prevent Thorn Bloom from sometimes failing. However, repro has been difficult for this bug, so let us know if you continue to encounter this issue.

Engineering Changes:

• The Doubleshot bonus from Shuriken Expertise and Advanced Ninja Training is now visible on your character sheet.

• Items in Barter Boxes now properly display their minimum levels.

• The buff bar now extends all the way across your screen regardless of screen resolution.

General Bug Fixes:

• The Earthgrab SLA in Earth Savant now correctly states that it is a Conjuration spell.

• DC and cooldown on Light and Dark versions of Stunning Blow now match base stunning blow.

• The Mystical Band now correctly drops in Isle of Dread.

• The character sheet no longer displays a baseline of -1% Ranged Attack Speed.

• Warlock's Fog Cloud now lasts its intended duration.

• Stormrage no longer displays out of date duration info in its tooltip.

• Reaper's Arcanum VI now awards its proper amount of Spell Points.

• Dire Thaumaturge icons that offer a split between INT/WIS/CHA now have their proper icons.

• The feat Sneak of Shadows now grants its proper Sneak Attack to-hit and damage.

• Fixed a typo in the text of Plague Wolf.

• Fixed a typo in the Sorcerer Savant Awaken Elemental Weakness abilities.

• The Red augments from Vecna Unleashed now properly apply their effects to your weapon and not to you.

• Lingering instances where the Helm of the Warblade's Crown of Summer effect does not work have been fixed.

• Control Undead now properly works with Eschew Materials and abilities that otherwise allow you to ignore material components.

• Tenuous Relationship With Death in Dhampir and Dark Bargainer no longer drops on Death.

• Dhampir Traits no longer drop on death.

• Fixed the icons for a lot of Dhampir and Dark Bargainer Abilities.

• Adjusted the tooltips of Shuriken Expertise and Advanced Ninja Training to make it clear that they cap at Dexterity 100 / Doubleshot 100%. (Note: this is what they do currently.)

• Flash Freeze's tool tip now correctly indicates this spell has recurring saves, and the recurring save frequency is now correctly set to 3 seconds.

• The Fire Seeds Spell has some physics bugs fixed.

• The Nothic's eye beam visuals should more reliably disappear when it is killed during the attack.

• Divine Crusader ability 'Law of Divine' now properly grants 2 Imbue Dice when you did not previously have the feat Embodiment of Law.

• Bladeforged no longer drops through the ground when using 'Smite Evil'.

• Fixed a typo in The Golden Curse effect.

• The Song Hunter Fey Hound now has its proper name.

• The shield The Vengeance Manifest now provides its shield bash % chance.

• The Ruby Eye red augments now correctly proc.

• Fixed a spelling mistake in The Necronomicannon.

• Fixed a typo in Thorn Knight form.

• Adjusted the icons of Blightcaster's Wild Shape forms in the buff bar to better match the forms granting those buffs.

• Blighted Bite now lasts its listed duration of 1 minute per caster level.

• Blighted Bite now has its correct icon.

• A planter floating in the air in House Jorasco has been moved to the ground.

• Beloved of the Divine no longer instantly dispels its own martial weapon bonus buff for no reason and instead just works like it normally should.

• Epic Spell Power: Poison can now be properly taken at level 22.

• Wild Magics in Shiradi Champion now properly grants its Force, Chaos, and Universal Spell Power.

• Some Robe icons have been updated to allow for item border colors to appear.

• Blighted Charge and Jaws of Doom now correctly state that they use Conjuration for their DCs.

• Heretical Lore and Penetrating Blast now have more accurate tooltips.

• Elemental Words: Static Charge now has its proper name in your character sheet.

• Dismissing Strike no longer requires Grandmaster of Flowers Core 4 AND Dark Philosophy, just one or the other.

• Ninja Spy Core 1 and 2 now have proper spacing in their tooltips.

• Insightful Alluring Skills Bonus now grants Insight bonuses to all of its skill types.

• Might's Reward in Beacon of Hope now grants its proper positive Spell Power.

• The display DC for Necrotic Ray SLA in Death Domain is now accurate.

• Fixed a small typo in the Pendant of the Stormreaver.

• The Curse of Butterflies no longer sticks a bad effect in your buff bar.

• Mass Confusion in Tainted Scholar now costs the correct amount of Depravity to activate.

• Zero Degree Comet and Moon's Shadow in Magus of the Eclipse now properly save for half damage instead of being totally negated.

• Arcane Insight now displays its correct duration of 30 seconds.

• The Purity Filigree Set now properly protects against all variants of Mummy Rot.

• Moonlance and Gloomspear can now be cast while Quelled.

• Bleed the Weak in Dark Hunter now properly scales with Double Strike and Double Shot.

• Brawnpits now always shows up as he promised in Madness of Crowds.

Update 77.2.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 77.2.1, released on Wednesday, February 11th, 2026.

News and Notes:

• This update corrects an issue with the Vow of Glory effect that was causing characters with the effect to not be able to properly acquire loot when the Symphony of the Fey event was inactive. The Symphony of the Fey event has now been disabled following its re-introduction last week. Characters will no longer retain the Vow of Glory effect.

Update 77.2 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 77.2, released on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026.

News and Notes:

• Bosses and Raid Bosses are now immune to most movement speed reduction debuffs that they were not already immune to, to prevent issues it can cause with quest progression.

• Symphony of the Fey: If a music note spawns near the edge of water and its spawned enemies fall into deep water they will now self-terminate, allowing you to claim the mote once other mote enemies are defeated.

• The end chest in The Chill of Ravenloft raid "Relentless" now generates the proper amount of loot to all participants.

• Mists of Ravenloft Ultimate Edition owners can now claim the Barovian Mist Weapon Aura from Rex'nall, the Mists of Ravenloft Cosmetic NPC in the Eberron Hall of Heroes.

• The Chill of Ravenloft's Guest Pass now properly accessed The Chill of Ravenloft.

• Ghost Worlds

• The Ghost worlds will now provide more feedback to users to remind them that they are on a Ghost World, such as giving an alert when you attempt to interact with the mailbox, auctions, or quests and displaying "Ghost World" at the top of the character selection screen.

• Characters who were still on the beach on a Ghost World should now be able to get through the Grotto quest

• It is no longer possible to create brand new characters on a Ghost World

Update 77.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 77.1, released on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025.

News and Notes:

• We have corrected issues with re-summoning and dismissing the North Wind Wolf Pup Creature Companion in the Patron's Coffer of the North Winds.

• The North Wind Wolf Pup Creature Companion no longer appears as the Black Rose Pup Creature Companion.

• The new Update 77 free quest "Body and Mind" now has its proper end chest.

Update 77 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 77: Presents and Pain, released on Wednesday, December 10th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

A new free dungeon is available!

You hear a voice calling for help from the mists, then plunge into the frigid fog to investigate...

"Body and Mind" is a new free quest that is level 8 on Heroic difficulty and level 36 on Legendary difficulty! This quest takes place in Lamordia, the location of our newest expansion The Chill of Ravenloft, but access to The Chill of Ravenloft is not required. Get started by going to the places where Ravenloft's mists are found: House Jorasco in Stormreach or Eveningstar in the Forgotten Realms. You will find new mist leading to the quest that will take you into the quest.

Festivult is now underway (starts Wednesday)!

Festivult has returned with updated cookies! During Festivult Copper, Silver, and Gold Festivult Coins appear in chests, and you can trade them with the Jester of Festivult for fun cookies! This year ten cookies are getting adjustments to provide new or different benefits! The Jester of Festivult has arrived to trade your coins! Coins will appear through January 6th, and the Jester will stick around to collect your coins through January 13th, 2026.

Learn more about Festivult in our guide on DDO.com!

News and Notes:

Events:

• Symphony of the Fey:

• Motes will now "ping" a player with a message when they spawn.

• The "too high level" limit on harvesting Motes is now +6 in Epic level quests from base quest level (twice the +3 from Heroic difficulty). For example, Catacombs 3 and 23 now allows players of up to level 6 on Heroic difficulty and up to level 29 on Epic difficulty to harvest their Motes.

• Issues have been corrected with some thrown weapons not properly getting their "Vow of Glory" designation.

• Lord Arden now references the proper reward for the Lute of the Summer Flight.

• The lute "spell" used to activate and harvest Motes no longer has a line of sight check, which could fail under certain conditions.

• The Symphony of the Fey NPCs in Korthos have been moved to the other side of the square.

• Mote spawn frequency has been increased.

• Motes are now less likely to spawn in objects.

• Baronness Hilda Bitterspine will now award the proper Winter Court Fairy Wings when acquired for a second or further time.

• An issue has been corrected that could allow reincarnated characters to acquire their first Winter lute inappropriately.

• An issue with Golden Mote completion has been corrected for characters who are of a lower level than the minimum lute requirement level, but who are in a quest at the correct level.

Items:

• Huge and Gargantuan Cookie Jars are now available in the DDO Store to hold your Festivult cookies!

• Weapon Finesse now gives its proper amount of Fortification bypass, and its description no longer falsely states that its bonus only applies to certain weapons.

• Scimitars now properly display as a light weapon in their tool tip.

• The following crossbows now properly apply Dexterity to damage when they qualify for it:

• Heroic, Epic, and Legendary Hellfire Crossbow

• Heroic and Legendary Moonlight Slinger

• Needle

• Slaver's Hand Crossbow

• Heroic and Legendary The Renovator.

• The following items now properly apply Strength or Dexterity to hit and damage when they qualify for it:

• Agony, the Knife in the Dark

• Alchemical Dagger

• Ancient Vulkoorim Dagger (Heroic, Epic, Legendary)

• Assassin's Kiss (Heroic, Epic)

• Balizarde, Protector of the King

• Bejeweled Letter Opener (Heroic, Epic, Legendary)

• Blade of the High Priestess

• Brigand's Cutlass (all levels)

• Celestia, Brightest Star of Day

• Coffin Nail

• Cutthroat's Smallblade (all levels)

• Dagger from veteran status 4 and 7

• Dice (Heroic, Epic)

• Drow Dagger of the Weapon Master

• Fell Shiv

• Flint (Heroic, Epic, Legendary)

• Flotsam (all levels)

• Guardian of the Liturgy

• Luck Blade

• Nicked Kama and Short Sword

• Onyxhorn

• Ornamented Dagger (all levels)

• Phiarlan Spy Dagger (Heroic, Epic, Legendary)

• Poniard of Pain (Heroic, Legendary)

• Sacrificial Dagger

• Sheridan's Wrack

• Slice (Heroic, Epic)

• Spectral Dagger (all levels)

• Star of Day

• Sun Blade

• Elyd Edge is now Strength, Dexterity, or Charisma to hit and damage on all four tiers (Corroded Rapier, Elyd Edge, Epic Elyd Edge, Legendary Elyd Edge).

Miscellaneous:

• Several typos in Rogue Mechanic tooltips have been corrected.

• Kensai's "Reed in the Wind" no longer applies Battle Guard to your enemies.

• Vistani Knife Fighter's Core 6 attack speed now properly applies to the kukri.

• An issue has been corrected that could cause enemies with thorn spells to do more damage than intended.

• The "claim one of everything" option in the Escape to Ravenloft: Utility Collection bundle now properly closes its dialog window when selected.

Update 76 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 76: Symphony of the Fey, released on Wednesday, November 19th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

The Symphony of the Fey event has arrived!

Hyrsam has been corrupted, cursed by the Fomorian King now residing in the Shadowfell following his defeat. This curse has scattered Hyrsam’s power across all worlds, and it is up to you to gather this power back in order to put an end to the Fomorian King’s threat. Align with the Summer or Winter Court, equip one of five special Lutes, discover musical Motes, complete special encounters, and earn cosmetic and musical rewards!

Read more about the Symphony of the Fey event in our guide on DDO.com.

The event begins on Wednesday, November 19th and continues through February 3rd, 2026, ending when we bring the game worlds down for their expected downtime at 9:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Wednesday, February 4th, 2026.

News and Notes:

Balance Update:

• Update 76 includes a series of balance changes with a particular focus for earlier heroic gameplay. Please read below for more information.

• Finesse Changes:

• All weapons that benefit from the Finesse feat now innately use the higher of Dexterity or Strength for to-hit and damage, just like more recent versions of Dungeons & Dragons. Scimitar is now a light weapon with a lower off-hand penalty and is now included as benefitting from the Finesse feat.

• Crossbows now innately use Dexterity for to-hit and damage.

• Dagger/Dart/Shuriken Thrown Weapons now innately use the higher of Strength or Dexterity.

• Throwing Axes/Hammers now use Strength for to-hit and damage.

• The Brutal Throw Feat is changing and is now +1 damage while using a Throwing Axe or Hammer for every 8 points of Strength.

• Specific Feat Changes:

• Weapon Finesse: Now grants +2 to-hit and 10% Fortification bypass

• Ranger Tempest Core 2 and 3: Grants Dexterity to-hit and damage with all one-handed weapons respectively. Prior text about scimitar has been removed.

• Assassin core 1 and 2: Core 1 has had its text adjusted. Core 1 continues to grant the kukri feat, core 2 provides +1 damage and 10% Fortification bypass

• Tabaxi (both types): Base Core 1 has had its description adjusted, Blazer gets quarterstaff compatibility, Improved Instincts is now quarterstaff-only, and the Improved Nimble Cat enhancement has been removed from Tabaxi since it no longer serves a purpose.

• Deepwood Stalker Improved Weapon Finesse: Changed to 15% Fortification bypass and +3 to hit.

• Bard Swash a Buckle - Swift Strikes: Removed since it no longer serves a purpose. General changes have been made throughout Swashbuckler text to support this adjustment.

• Wood Elf Forest Finesse: Allows Dexterity for to-hit and damage with all weapons, and no longer has pre-requisites.

• Halfling Skillful Thrower: +2 to-hit and damage when using a Thrown Weapon instead of its previous purpose.

• Elf Graces: Allows Dexterity for to-hit and damage with all weapons, and no longer has pre-requisites.

• General Feat Changes:

• Cleave gains a +1 Critical Threat range and a +1 Critical Multiplier Bonus.

• Great Cleave gains a +1 Threat range and a +2 Critical Multiplier Bonus.

• Sunder gets +10 to its attack roll.

• Improved Sunder gets 20 to its attack roll and gains a +60% damage bonus.

• Hamstring's cooldown has been reduced from 15 seconds to 6 seconds, and now gains a +50% damage bonus. Hamstring no longer requires a rank of sneak attack.

• Slicing Blow's cooldown has been reduced from 15 seconds to 6 seconds, and now gains a 40% damage bonus.

• Stunning Blow's and Sap's cooldowns have been decreased from 15 seconds to 10 seconds, and their base DC has been increased from 10 to 14. Sap still has no Saving Throw.

• Spring Attack gains a 20% damage bonus.

• Improved Precise Shot now passively increases the Ability Score Modifier bonus to damage for Longbows and Shortbows by +50%, including when the stance is off. This stacks with Precise Shot.

• Enhancement Trees:

• **Razor Claw: **Magic Fang now has a max caster level of 20 so it no longer bugs when it hits over level 40 ahead of schedule.

• Blight Caster's Blighted Charge and Jaws of Doom will use Conjuration instead of necromancy for DCs.

• Favored Soul's Archon's Fury - Removed spell point cost per blast. Damage increased to 2d6 from 1d6+1 and stack size reduced to 10.

• Radiant Servant (Cleric/Sacred Fist):

• Positive Energy Shield buff - The temporary Hit Point grant is now twice your Heal skill, and four times your Heal skill if your target is above level 20.

• Efficient Empowered Heal costs 1 Action Point per rank instead of 2.​

• Divine Healing now scales with 50% Positive Spell Power (only 50% since the duration is so long). Will now have a line of sight check, double spell range (ray range)​.

• Reactive Heal scales with Spell Power.

• Mechanic

• Mechanic Bomb spells now use Disable Device plus a 1d20 roll for their DC, just like a Bard's Fascinate ability.

• Mechanic Improve Traps bonus is now a +1/2/3 Disable Device bonus instead of the previous specific bomb bonus. The DC mod to "rogue traps" is unchanged.

• Mechanic Bombs now deal:​

• Tanglefoot 4d6 +1 per Sneak Attack die in acid damage every 2 seconds. Crowd Control is the same as before with its Disable Trap Skill DC +1d20 roll​.

• Thunder Stone now does 4d6 +1d4/6/8 per Sneak Attack die in damage. Crowd Control is the same as before with its Disable Trap Skill DC +1d20 roll​.

• Ooze Flask now does 4d6 +1d6/8/12 per Sneak Attack die in damage. Debuff as before with Disable Device Skill DC +1d20 roll.

• Time bomb will now scale with 200% Ranged Power and also use a Disable Device Skill DC +1d20​.

• Leg Shot has been replaced with Line Up and Sit Down - Ranged attack which is a 250% damage modifier. Knocks down target for 2 seconds with no Saving Throw. 6 second cooldown.​

• Swap Core 5 Expert Builder with Sniper from T5 gets a critical multiplier accessible by level 12.

• Vanguard (fighter/paladin)

• Follow up now grants 5/10/15 Melee Power and lasts 30 seconds.

• Shield Smash damage now scales at 25/50/75% instead of 10/20/30 and its MRR/PRR buff is replaced by a new buff called Battle Guard​.

• Battle Guard: Lasts 12 seconds and stacks 5 times, 10 MRR/PRR per stack. Blocking for more than 3 seconds removes all stacks.​

• Shield Charge now applies a knockdown to targets in area for 2 seconds. DC is 10 + highest ability modifier + character level + tripping bonuses, cooldown 25/20/15.​

• Armor Strength melee power bonus increased from 10 to 15.​

• Kensai

• Shattering Strike/Shot Damage increased to 25/50/100% bonus​.

• Reed in the Wind cooldown now 8 seconds. Damage bonus increased to 20/40/60%. Instead of Dodge now grants Battle Guard. No longer requires Dodge Feat to take.​

• Battle Guard: Lasts 12 seconds and stacks 5 times, 10 MRR/PRR per stack. Blocking for more than 3 seconds removes all stacks.​

• Vistani Knife Fighting

• Core 6 attack speed bonus only applies to when using a dagger or kukri.​

• Inquistive

• Undaunted (Core 5) no longer grants Ranged Power.​

• Master Inquisitive (Core 6)'s Ranged Power is reduced from +10 to +5​.

• Inquisitive's Path no longer grants Ranged Power.

• Archmage

• School Mastery II now grants +2 to the chosen DC.

• Each core now adds +5 Universal Spell Power (on top of the +1 for points spent in tree)​

• Battle Engineer

• Tactical Mobility now costs 1AP.

• Enlightened Spirit

• Beacon now costs 1AP.​

• Displacement now costs 1AP.​

• Soul Eater

• Supreme Hunger now costs 1AP​.

• Feed on Magic now costs 1AP​.

• Tainted Scholar

• Spell Focus now costs 2AP.​

• Planar Focus now costs 1AP.​

• Eldritch Power costs 1 AP and grants 2 Dice instead of 1

• Misc:

• Death Ward no longer completely negates negative energy damage from inflict/necro spell damage, but reduces it by 50%. This is flagged with the Shield trait, much like Fire Shield/Energy Shield is for Fire damage. A certain raid boss on the Isle of Dread will now stop stacking negative energy vulnerability, but this will not affect the Temple of the Deathwyrm raid. This also applies to monsters when they cast Death Ward, so Pale Masters and shady Clerics may rejoice.

• **Lost Souls In Reaper Raids: **The drop rate for Lost Souls in raids has been greatly increased​.

• Epic Destinies:

• Fury of the Wild's Epic Strike Quick Cutter has had its cooldown increased to 8 seconds. Quick and Bleed duration has been changed to 10 seconds. Bleed damage has been reduced to 1d6 per Character Level. Bleed Damage has been increased by Rank 1 of Spirit of the Beast by 1d6 and Rank 1 of Primal Force for a net total of 3d6.

• Unyielding Sentinel's Celestial Mandate now applies its Battle Guard effect per target hit instead of its previous buff. If you are using a shield it always applies 1 extra even if you completely miss. Battle Guard: Lasts 12 seconds and stacks 5 times, 10 MRR/PRR per stack. Blocking for more than 3 seconds removes all stacks.​

Other Changes:

• The Mists of Ravenloft expansion bundle item vendor can now be found in the Eberron Hall of Heroes. Players that own the Collector's or Ultimate Editions of Mists of Ravenloft can now speak to this NPC to claim items from this expansion.

• Relentless:

• The Helmed Horror can no longer fly, preventing an issue where this enemy refused to properly return to the ground.

• The Time Taken is now available for Relentless Runes

• The Mask of the Killer now shows its correct appearance.

• The Memory of Animated Objects from The Life for the Lifeless now has its correct description: "You recall bringing life to lifeless forms, and control you had over the inanimate. +171 Equipment Bonus to Rust and Repair Spell Power, +24% Equipment Bonus to Rust and Repair Spell Crit Chance, and +25% Enhancement Bonus to Rust and Repair Spell Crit Damage."

• The music in the raid "Threats Old and New" now properly plays.

• A Mad Tea Party: The hallway at the bottom of the basement stairs has been adjusted to increase visibility of the door to the rest of the basement wing.

• The Grandmaster of Flowers' Lotus Blades longbow now properly grants the Wisdom-to-attack portion of Zen Archery.

• The debuff from the Minion of the Eldritch Dark Gift and its Improved version now reduce Spell Crit damage by the correct amount.

• Swashbuckling's weapon requirements now list "light" weapons where it previously listed "Finessable" in tooltips to avoid confusion. The in-game functionality is unchanged.

• The Helm of the Warblade and its Legendary version now apply Crown of Summer correctly.

• Enemy Dodge Piercing effects now bypass their correct amount of Dodge.

• The Season 9 Hardcore League leaderboard list has been added to the Hall of Heroes.

• A few "spawn a trap object" effects in Double Rainbow have been replaced since the trap effects failed to initiate reliably.

Update 75.6 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 75.6, released on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025.

News and Notes:

• VIP Crafting Material Tokens have been renamed to VIP Rare Crafting Material Tokens to help differentiate them from the new VIP Uncommon Crafting Material Tokens.

• Further work has been done to change the way wilderness areas are loaded to make their handling more efficient. The changes in Update 75.6 bring the work done in 75.5 to most of the remaining wilderness areas in the game.

• As a result of the changes, objects created and left unattended fully out of sight in some wilderness regions now expire after approximately 2 minutes, such as Bigby's Guiding Hands, Dimension Door entrances, or Hirelings left guarding an area by themselves. In the case of Hirelings, the Hireling will disappear from the party but can be re-summoned if you still have their contract available.

Update 75.5 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 75.5, released on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025.

News and Notes:

• This game update includes a change to the way some landscapes are loaded to make their handling more efficient.

• As a result of the changes, objects created and left unattended fully out of sight in some landscape regions now expire after approximately 2 minutes, such as Bigby's Guiding Hands, Dimension Door entrances, or Hirelings left guarding an area by themselves. In the case of Hirelings, the Hireling will disappear from the party but can be re-summoned if you still have their contract available.

• An issue has been corrected that prevented characters from reaching Zardanarith, the green dragon in the Isle of Dread wilderness area.

Update 75.4 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 75.4, released on Wednesday, September 24th, 2025.

News and Notes:

• An issue has been corrected with hireling pathing that could cause significant server performance issues if they could not path to their players.

• A bug has been corrected that could allow more hirelings to be summoned than intended.

• This update includes preparation for this year's Night Revels event, which begins on Wednesday, October 1st and runs through Tuesday, November 3rd. In addition to the returning slate of rewards this year's Night Revels includes a new version of the Night Revels cloak, hat, and robe called the Hag Queen's Attire.

• 2024 Night Revels candies and other expiring ingredients are now expired. See Known Issues.

• Some frills and rocks in Isle of Dread and Myth Drannor have been adjusted as part of the followup work to a recent change on procedural frill generation.

• This update includes preparatory work for the delivery of the Armor of the Red Dragon Set! This reward debuts after October 1st as a VIP Loyalty Reward Program benefit. You can read more about the VIP Loyalty Reward Program on DDO.com.

• An issue has been corrected in the quest "The Body Snatchers" that could cause players to get stuck in a room with a cookbook if everyone in the room dies.

• An issue has been corrected in the quest "Locked Away Part 2" that could cause some of the bomb ingredients to not register properly.

• The icon and focus orb of the Lamordia Bottle of Mist has been adjusted to help differentiate it from the Mists of Ravenloft Bottle of Mist.

• Various polish has taken place in the Lamordia wilderness area.

• Kobold Warriors now attack properly under certain conditions.

Known Issues:

• 2024 versions of Night Revels ingredients are no longer in data. Copies currently in banks may be dragged into your inventory to delete them and free up the slots again. Copies of the 2024 Night Revels ingredients in Crafting Storage may leave behind stuck entries. These stuck entries will be fixed in a future patch.

Update 75.3 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 75.3, released on Thursday, September 11th, 2025.

News and Notes:

• Extensive work has been done to clean up incorrectly flagged decorative objects which were being tracked by the server and causing our garbage collection processes to back up when under heavy load conditions. These objects are mostly things like bones, flowers, bushes, and grass. Other then improving server performance these adjustments should have no impact on game play.

• Certain rock formations and walkable trees have had their physics simplified. These objects were found to be excessively complex and were taxing the server. More of these affected objects were found in the Myth Drannor and Isle of Dread landscapes.

• Fixed some windows that were floating up in the air of the Lamordia landscape.

• Quest XP in Heroic difficulty quests in The Chill of Ravenloft has been increased, and several quests which were incorrectly set up as "Medium" are now correctly flagged as "Long", which also boosts their XP and Favor on all difficulties.

• A barrier issue has been corrected in the quest "A Miner Sacrifice".

• The waypoint out of the graveyard in the Lamordia wilderness now spawns consistently.

• Treewalker, the rare spider in The Keep on the Borderlands wilderness area, is no longer stuck inside of a wall and can be defeated.

Update 75.2 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 75.2, released on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025.

News and Notes:

• This game update focuses on the first of several phases of game performance improvement work planned in the coming weeks.

• This update addresses some of the more frequent objects that impact a cleanup process known as "entity destruction", or more commonly called "garbage collection", that games like ours use to clean up no-longer-necessary information while you play.

• This update adjusts the system to no longer need to pay attention to these objects, thus optimizing the way the game handles decorative landscape and other environmental features.

• This update will provide temporary improvement to the "garbage collection" system while we work on addressing this issue more widely with objects throughout the game. We expect the next phase of this work to take place in the next game update.

• You may see some trees, bushes, or other decorative objects in a different location then expected as a result of this change.

Update 75.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 75.1, released on Thursday, August 28th, 2025.

News and Notes:

The Chill of Ravenloft:

• A frost giant rare in Lamordia no longer gets stuck in a cave.

• Rejecting a Dark Gift feat now has a debuff that lasts for five minutes.

• Various polish has taken place in the Lamordia landscape to deal with some floating objects and other issues.

• Typos have been corrected in NPC dialog in The Chill of Ravenloft.

• Viktranium Picks no longer list a minimum level of 26.

• All Gravekeeper armor-slot items (from Lamordia) now have 3 Lamordia Augment Slots. (Items in this category that had 4 slots no longer have a Woeful slot). Banked copies of these items may not reflect this change until removed from the Bank.

• All Downcast armor-slot items (from Lamordia) now have 4 Lamordia Augment Slots. Banked copies of these items may not reflect this change until removed from the Bank.

• Bleak Transformers now drop from purple-name bosses in the Lamordia Wilderness Area.

• Chests in the Lamordia wilderness now drop the correct number of Bleak Wires.

• The Dhampir Dark Bargainer's Mist-Touched Cloak can now be equipped properly.

• Heroic Lamordia's Sentinel Constructs and several similar low-to-mid level constructs in the game now deal less Force damage.

• The Bottle of Freezing Mist will now properly teleport you to House Jorasco if you have not finished the quest The Body Snatchers.

• When a player is removed from a guild or the guild disbands while on an airship they now appear at the air ship tower in the market (instead of reaaallly high up in the air.)

• Warlock: Fixed an issue where Eldritch Blasts could break quests by breaking objects that were set to be unbreakable.

• Warlock: Root walls in "The Trouble with Tar Pits" and "The Thornwright" now break correctly from Eldritch Blasts and other spells.

• An issue has been corrected with The Chill of Ravenloft's Saga Reward lists to prevent an issue that could cause rewards to be unable to be selected.

• Lamordia's wilderness area now awards its intended experience on Legendary difficulty.

• Rare purple named wilderness enemies now drop their proper ingredients in their intended amount.

Spells:

• The Monster Manual category Living Spell now properly has a creature companion deed again. If you already qualified for this deed, you will need to kill one more Living Spell for the system to register you qualify to receive the reward.

• The Slow spell cast by both players and enemies now has a maximum duration of 25 seconds when targeting players.

• The monster spell "Ego Wipe" now scales 50% less from Spell Power and only inflicts 1 point of Charisma damage on a successful saving throw instead of the half damage it was doing. Adjustments including Spell Power and modifiers for Reaper difficulty continue to apply to that point of Charisma damage.

Update 75: The Chill of Ravenloft Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 75, The Chill of Ravenloft, released on Wednesday, August 20th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

Return to the Mists of Horror! The Chill of Ravenloft has been released!

Step back into the haunting mists of Ravenloft in the chilling new Dungeons & Dragons Online expansion The Chill of Ravenloft. Venture to Lamordia, a land forever bound by ice and shrouded in darkness. Amidst bleak alleys, derelict factories, and grotesque laboratories, sinister secrets fester beneath the surface; mysterious disappearances, grisly murders, and ghastly experiments gone awry. Confront the scientific horrors crafted by the brilliant but terrifying Dr. Viktra Mordenheim. Perhaps your courage will unravel the curse gripping Lamordia… if you live long enough to see the truth!

Brave 13 terrifying new quests, explore a hauntingly atmospheric wilderness area, and more! A new raid will be released soon that is also available with your purchase. Dare to uncover the dark secrets lurking in every corner of these twisted lands.

Get started with your adventure by speaking with Olkresh in the Eberron Hall of Heroes to collect your purchased cosmetics and other items. Then travel to House Jorasco (or Eveningstar) and look for the snowy mists to enter the land of Lamordia! The Chill of Ravenloft quests are CR 8 on Heroic Difficulty and CR 34 on Legendary Difficulty.

Learn more about The Chill of Ravenloft on DDO.com!** **

**News and Notes:

**

Transfers:

• Your Reincarnation Cache will now be included in packing when using the /transfer pack command rather than needing to be emptied before packing. It is no longer necessary to remove items from your Reincarnation Cache prior to transfer.

• Adjustments have been made to allow characters with a larger data footprint to make it through the Transfer Wizard.

Classes:

• The following character paths now work correctly for players who select Wood Elf: Stalwart Defender (Fighter), The Mighty Protector (Paladin), Elementalist (Wizard), and Dark Blade (Rogue).

Game Performance:

• Fixed an issue that caused some quest givers to lock up and become unusable.

• Applied a fix to non-tower guild airship access points so that they also will not lock up over time.

• Fixed a crashing issue with crafting devices.

Feats:

• NOTE: Dhampir Dark Bargainers who took an incomplete Enhanced Dark Gift feat during level-up prior to Update 75 have had those feats removed. A Feat Respec Token has been provided in place of those feats for impacted characters.

• Players can find a Shrine to the Mists in the Lamordia Landscape. This shrine allows **any **player the possibility of acquiring a Dark Gift temporary feat, or for legendary players, the ability to upgrade their Dark Gift. The rules of the bargain:

• To gain a dark gift you must provide an offering to the shrine. The item called "Offerings to the Dark Powers" appears in the Saga Reward table in both Heroic and Legendary difficulty.

• You can only have one Shrine Dark Gift at a time.

• The Shrine's Dark Gifts are considered a temporary Feat and do not interact with Fred.

• You are free to swap to another Gift at any time but it requires another offering. You will lose any upgrade to that feat you may have acquired.

• You may reject your Gift (remove it) at any time at the shrine. The Dark Powers will not be happy with you.

• Once a player is level 30+ they may upgrade their Gift with a "Great Offering to the Dark Powers" found in the Legendary Saga Reward table.

• Dark Bargainers may use the shrine to take an additional Gift, but they may only upgrade the Gift granted by the Shrine, not the one they take in character creation.

• True incarnation will remove the Gift, and a new offering will be needed to restore it.

• Legendary Dark Gift Upgrades:

• Living Shadow: Shadow Weakness becomes Shadow Defense. While the ability still reduces damage by 15%, it also now increases Dodge by 15%.

• Mist Walker: The duration of the Mist Walker buff now lasts for six seconds after you use the ability, assuming the Mists are not hungry.

• Minion of The Eldritch: If the Dark Powers scorn you, it now only lasts for 12 seconds instead of 30.

• Touch of Death: Gain the benefit of Deathblock.

• Webtouched Wretch: You gain Immunity to certain Web effects. This does not include your webs, but the duration of those are reduced to four seconds, from six.

• Echoing Souls: The duration of your suffering when your Echoes begin to shout is reduced from six seconds to three seconds.

• Form of Pain: Gain a passive addition 10 Physical Resistance Rating and Magical Resistance Rating.

Items:

• The Chill of Ravenloft Bundle Item Vendor Olkresh in the Eberron Hall of Heroes now offers those who have purchased the Ultimate Edition of the expansion to claim their Frozen Bottle of Mist. This item allows for teleportation to House Jorasco before starting The Chill of Ravenloft, and teleportation to the public area of The Chill of Ravenloft once discovered.

• Items in The Chill of Ravenloft use the Viktranium Experiment Crafting System. While playing in Lamordia, you will find named Items with Lamordia Augment Slots. Additionally you will find Bleak Parts, which can be used to make Lamordia Augments, as well as Calamitous Weapon Bases.

• In the Ludendorf Town Hall you will find crafting devices where you can use your Bleak Parts to make Augments that slot into your items!

• The system is similar to Dinosaur Bone Crafting in Isle of Dread, if you are familiar with that crafting system. We will provide comparisons below to help with understanding the system.

• The Viktranium Experiment Crafting System exists in both the Legendary AND Heroic difficulty versions of The Chill of Ravenloft.

• Ingredients have a 100% chance to drop in every chest in The Chill of Ravenloft content (not including Champion chests.) Ingredient types are:

• Bleak Conductors (These are analogous to Fossilized Ankylosaur Ribs)

• Bleak Insulators (These are analogous to Fossilized Pteranodon Vertebrae)

• Bleak Alternators (These are analogous to Fossilized Raptor Claws)

• Bleak Resistors (These are analogous to Fossilized Triceratops Horns)

• In the Wilderness, you can find Bleak Wires. (These are analogous to Fossilized Tyrannosaurus Teeth).

• Certain special encounters will also drop Bleak Transformers. (These are analogous to Black Pearls. You can also eventually expect to find them in the Raid.)

• Lamordia Augment Slots:

• There are four Slot Types in this crafting system:

• Melancholic (This is analogous to Scale slots)

• Dolorous (This is analogous to Fang slots)

• Miserable (This is analogous to Claw slots)

• Woeful (This is analogous to Horn slots)

• These can come in multiple variants: Armor, Weapon, and Accessory. Unlike Dinosaur Bone Crafting, there are no Set Bonus Slots in this system. Instead, loot in The Chill of Ravenloft has Sun and Moon Augment Slots.

• There are thirty-two new Sun and Moon Augments in this expansion, as well as new drop locations for many of the existing ones!

• An issue has been fixed with glamered cosmetics getting stuck on the Legendary Warblade.

• Dinosaur Bone Crafting bonuses to Light and Alignment Spell Crit now properly add their Alignment spell crit.

• Newly created Dark Bargainer Iconic characters will now get their correct number of spell components.

Monsters:

• Fixed an issue where Ettins were sometimes not performing their death animation correctly.

Questing and Adventure Areas:

• An issue has been corrected in the Shadow Crypt where some Shadows were failing to properly aggro on players who were considered to be undead themselves.

Spells:

• An issue has been corrected with some Chaosmancer spells that were incorrectly set as enchantment effects, which would cause them to bounce off of some enemy defenses.

Known Issues:

• Due to a script creation issue, two quests do not currently have all of their proper Dungeon Master narration. So for the moment, the quests "A Miner Sacrifice" and "Cold Snap" feature our very own Community Manager Cordovan providing some temporary narration.

Update 74.1.2 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 74.1.2, released on Wednesday, July 30th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

• Packing and Unpacking is now restricted to the inside of the Lordsmarch Bank in The Marketplace of Eberron. If you are not focused on packing or unpacking, we strongly recommend performing normal banking activity at one of the other banking locations throughout the game. Attempting to issue the "/transfer pack" or "/transfer unpack" command from outside of the Lordsmarch Bank now returns a messaging telling you how to complete the command.

Update 74.1.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 74.1.1, released on Thursday, July 24th, 2025.

News and Notes:

• The Lifeshaper no longer allows a character to start a Reincarnation process that is destructive to that character's Packed data. Players should unpack their character(s) prior to reincarnation.

• Guild members who experienced an issue unpacking due to a change in guild leadership after they packed should now be able to unpack and re-join their guild.

• We have developed a solution for customer support to assist players who disconnected during the packing process and now cannot transfer due to the state of their packing character. This work will allow customer support to assist these players.

• An issue has been corrected with the portal inside of the Snapping Line Inn in Saltmarsh to allow more people to use the portal at the same time.

• New text has been added to the initial display text when a character runs the "/transfer pack" command. The line now reads, "Packing data for world transfer ... Please wait until you receive the message "This character was packed for transfer" with a time stamp before logging out of this character."

• New text has been added to the initial display text when a character runs the "transfer unpack" command. The line now reads, "Unpacking data for world transfer ... Please wait until you receive the message "Unpacking complete."

• If a character is the in the process of packing or unpacking it will no longer be able to log out through our in-game menus. Logout will instead present the message, "Your character is currently packing or unpacking for transfer, please remain logged in."

• Base Character Bank slots have been increased from 20 to 80.

• The Alabaster Lioness and Saltmarsh VIP tickets now deliver their expected benefits on Thrane, Shadowdale, and Moonsea.

Update 74.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 74.1, released on Tuesday, July 15th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

Transfers to our 64-bit Game Worlds begin at 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) July 15th!

THE LATEST (Tuesday, July 15th: Our 32-bit game worlds and Cormyr have reopened with Transfers and Packing disabled. We will have further guidance on the opening of our 64-bit game worlds and free transfers soon.)

Read more about free transfers and new servers on DDO.com. We will open the game worlds and enable transfers to our 64-bit game worlds starting at 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) on July 15th.

News and Notes:

• Work has taken place to implement the packing and unpacking functions that begins on July 15th. This update includes changes related to that work. See the transfer guide for more information.

• Hit Point totals of enemies are now visible to everyone, and their display is no longer gated through Monster Manual progress. Monster Manual also no longer makes reference to it.

• Coupon Codes have been created to assist transferring players with pet renames and guild airship cosmetic replacements. Please see the transfer guide for more information.

• The display of the game worlds in the game launcher has been adjusted. Our 32-bit game worlds currently display (OLD) to help guide new and returning players to select a 64-bit game world instead during this transition period, and to help players find our 32-bit game worlds during this transition.

Update 74 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 74, released on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

Return to the Mists of Horror!

Step back into the haunting mists of Ravenloft in the chilling new Dungeons & Dragons Online expansion. Venture to Lamordia, a land forever bound by ice and shrouded in darkness. Amidst bleak alleys, derelict factories, and grotesque laboratories, sinister secrets fester beneath the surface; mysterious disappearances, grisly murders, and ghastly experiments gone awry. Confront the scientific horrors crafted by the brilliant but terrifying Dr. Viktra Mordenheim. Perhaps your courage will unravel the curse gripping Lamordia… if you live long enough to see the truth!

Learn more about The Chill of Ravenloft on DDO.com!

• Embrace the Darkness as a Dhampir

• Step into shadows with the all-new Dhampir playable race! Utilize your dark heritage to wield vampiric powers and unique abilities to dominate foes, channeling the sinister strength of your cursed lineage.

• Unravel Lamordia’s Horrors

• Explore a nightmarish land steeped in sinister mysteries and perpetual winter. Navigate shadowy streets, derelict Victorian architecture, and secret laboratories filled with monstrous experiments and twisted creations.

• Battle Monstrous Creations

• Face grotesque enemies born from Dr. Viktra Mordenheim’s twisted imagination. Steel your nerves against relentless, unnatural foes unlike any encountered before in DDO!

• Thrilling New Adventures

• Brave challenging new dungeons filled with horrors both mortal and monstrous. Experience intense combat and haunting storylines in CR 8 Heroic and CR 36 Legendary quests at full release.

• Discover a Frozen Nightmare

• Traverse the stark beauty and chilling menace of Lamordia’s expansive wilderness area. Every frozen step reveals more secrets of this forsaken realm.

• Get More with Collector’s or Ultimate Fan Bundles

• Instantly unlock powerful items, eerie cosmetics, and exclusive bonuses with the Collector’s or Ultimate Fan Bundles. Choose your edition and fully embrace The Chill of Ravenloft!

News and Notes:

Dhampir Race:

• Dhampir are characters with innate connections to death and undeath. Many are half-Vampires one way or another, and have a life-draining bite.

• Starting Features:

• +2 Strength

• Dhampir do not need to breathe while underwater.

• Feat: Vampiric Bite

• Single Target Action: You bite target creature at touch range, dealing 1d4 Piercing Damage per Character Level. This scales with 200% Melee or Ranged Power, though is not a weapon attack and cannot critically hit. If that creature is a living and corporeal creature, you heal for 20 + (Total Character Level x Constitution Modifier) number of Hit Points from Positive energy. 15 second cooldown.

• Note: Dhampir cannot use class Paths, you must choose Customize.

• Dhampir Racial Enhancement Tree:

• Cores:

• Dark Past: +1 Attack when performing Sneak Attacks.

• +1 STR/CON/CHA

• Dark Present: +2 Attack when performing Sneak Attacks, +1 Sneak Attack Die, and +20 Negative Amplification.

• +1 STR/CON/CHA

• Dark Future: +3 Attack when performing Sneak Attacks, +2 Sneak Attack Dice, and +20 Negative Amplification.

• Tier 1

• Draining Bite: Your Vampiric Bite now applies 1 Negative Level. This increases by 1 for every 5 Character Levels you have.

• Skills: +1/2/3 to Hide, Move Silently, and Jump

• Energy (Multiselector):

• Drink in Life: +20 Positive Amplification

• Drink in Death: +20 Negative Amplification

• Tenuous Relationship With Death: Your range of unconsciousness extends by 5/10/20 Hit Points. Rank 3: You automatically stabilize when Unconscious.

• Innate Protection: +1/2/3 to Saves vs Spells

• Tier 2

• Lifeblood: When you successfully use your Vampiric Bite on a living target in corporeal form, you gain +1/2/3 to all Ability Scores for 60 seconds.

• Dominate Animal SLA: As per the spell. SP cost: 0, 30 second cooldown, DC (15 + Highest of INT/WIS/CHA Mod + Enchantment Bonuses)

• Embrace Death: Toggle: While Embrace Death is active, you gain 100% critical hit resistance and are able to be healed by Negative Energy. You take 50% healing from Positive, and double damage from Light. (This replaces your natural vulnerability to Light). You are considered Undead rather than your original type for the purposes of most effects. You gain +2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma, +2 Wisdom, and +3 Perform. Your melee attacks have a 10% chance to heal you for 1d3 with Negative Energy per Character level (max 20). This is a Major Form, and counts as a Shroud for the purpose of Pale Master.

• Rush of Bats: Turn into a swarm of bats and rush to target foe's position. [36/24/12] second cooldown. This shares a cooldown with similar rushes such as Vanguard's Shield Rush.

• Cloak of Undeath: +2/+4/+6 Magical Resistance Rating. Rank 3: +6 Magical Resistance Rating Cap.

• Tier 3

• Fearsome Countenance: Target enemy must save or be Cowered (Will save vs. DC 10 + Highest of STR/CON/CHA Mod + Stunning bonuses + Enchantment DC Bonuses ) for 6 seconds. This is considered a Fear effect. On Save: -10% Movement and Attack Speed for 6 seconds. 12 second cooldown.

• Stunning Visage: +2/3/4 to Stun DCs.

• Deathly Bite: When you are considered Undead (via Embrace Death or any other source), your Vampiric Bite heals you for Negative energy instead of Positive.

• Harrying Swarm: Enemies in a small area around where you finish your Rush of Bats take -5% Dodge and -5 Attack for 12 seconds.

• Improved Dodge: +1%/+2%/+3% Dodge when wearing light or no armor.

• Tier 4

• Ascendant Bite: Your Vampiric Bite now applies 5 stacks of Vulnerability and deals double the Piercing damage. If the target of your Vampiric Bite is Cowered, living and corporeal they must make a Fortitude Saving Throw (DC 16 + Highest of STR/CON/CHA Mod + Stunning Bonuses + Enchantment Bonuses) or die.

• Vampiric Persuasion: +1/2/3 Enchantment DCs

• Dominate Person SLA: As per the spell. SP cost: 0, 30 second cooldown, DC (15 + Highest of INT/WIS/CHA Mod + Enchantment Bonuses)

• Biting Swarm: Living, corporeal enemies in a small area around where you finish your Rush of Bats are bitten by the bats, causing them to bleed, taking 1d12 damage per Character Level every 2 seconds for 12 seconds. This damage scales with 200% Melee Power.

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• Racial Past Life: Dhampir:

• 1st: +1 Hide

• 2nd: +1 Strength

• 3rd: +1 Racial Action Point

Dhampir Dark Bargainer Iconic Hero:

• Dark Bargainers are Dhampir who have made bargains with the Dark Powers. They have connections to the Mists (regardless of their origins) and can manipulate them to their advantage.

• Starts with one level of Warlock.

• +1 Intelligence, +1 Charisma

• Dhampir do not need to breathe underwater.

• Feat: Vampiric Bite

• Single Target Action: You bite a target creature at touch range, dealing 1d4 Piercing Damage per Character Level. This scales with 200% Melee or Ranged Power (though it is not a weapon attack and cannot critically hit.) If that creature is a living and corporeal creature, you heal for 20 + (Total Character Level x Constitution Modifier) Hit Points from Positive energy. 15 second cooldown.

• Dark Gift Feat: Dark Bargainers have a Feat Slot at level 1 to take one Dark Gift Feat.

• Cores

• Dark Past: +1 Attack when performing Sneak Attacks.

• +1 CON/INT/CHA

• Dark Present: +2 Attack when performing Sneak Attacks, +1 Sneak Attack Die, and +20 Negative Amplification.

• +1 CON/INT/CHA

• Dark Future: +3 Attack when performing Sneak Attacks, +2 Sneak Attack Dice, and +20 Negative Amplification.

• Tier 1

• Draining Bite: Your Vampiric Bite now applies 1 Negative Level. This increases by 1 for every 5 Character Levels you have.

• Manipulate the Mists: +1 Pact Die. When you hit a target who is inside a Dread Mist zone with Eldritch Blast, it gains one stack of Growing Dread. This effect does nothing on its own, can apply to each creature once per second, and can stack up to 30 times. If a creature is outside of Dread Mists for 10 seconds, it loses all stacks of Growing Dread.

• Energy (Multiselector):

• Drink in Life: +20 Positive Amplification

• Drink in Death: +20 Negative Amplification

• Tenuous Relationship With Death: Your range of unconsciousness extends by 5/10/20 Hit Points. Rank 3: You automatically stabilize when Unconscious.

• SLA: Dread Mist. 4 Spell Points. 12 second cooldown. (See below, in the Pact.)

• Tier 2

• Lifeblood: When you successfully use your Vampiric Bite on a living target in corporeal form, you gain +1/2/3 to all Ability Scores for 60 seconds.

• SLA: Prey on Fear: Target enemy at touch range takes 1d6+2 Evil Damage per Caster Level. Additionally, if the target is inside a Dread Mist zone it deals 1d4 Evil Damage for each stack of Growing Dread that creature has. Will save for half damage on each effect. 4 Spell Points. Level 1 Necromancy. 6 second cooldown.

• Embrace Death: Toggle: While Embrace Death is active, you gain 100% critical hit resistance and are able to be healed by Negative Energy. You take 50% healing from Positive, and double damage from Light. (This replaces your natural vulnerability to Light). You are considered Undead rather than your original type for the purposes of most effects. You gain +2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma, +2 Wisdom, and +3 Perform. Your melee attacks have a 10% chance to heal you for 1d3 with Negative Energy per Character level (max 20). This is a Major Form, and counts as a Shroud for the purpose of Pale Master.

• Rush of Bats: Turn into a swarm of bats and rush to target foe's position. [36/24/12] second cooldown. (This shares a cooldown with similar rushes, such as Vanguard's Shield Rush).

• Cloak of Undeath: +2/+4/+6 Magical Resistance Rating. Rank 3: +6 Magical Resistance Rating Cap.

• Tier 3

• Fearsome Countenance: Target enemy must save or be Cowered (Will save vs. DC 10 + Highest of STR/CON/CHA Mod + Stunning bonuses + Enchantment DC Bonuses ) for 6 seconds. This is considered a Fear effect. On Save: -10% Movement and Attack Speed for 6 seconds. 12 second cooldown.

• Vampiric Blast: Eldritch Essence Stance: +1 Eldritch Blast Die, +1 Pact Die. While using Focused Blast shape, your Eldritch Blasts heal you for 1d3 Hit Points in Positive Energy. If you have Deathly Bite, this is instead Negative Energy.

• Deathly Bite: When you are considered Undead (via Embrace Death or any other source), your Vampiric Bite heals you for Negative energy instead of Positive.

• Harrying Swarm: Enemies affected by your Rush of Bats have -5% Dodge and -5 Attack for 12 seconds.

• Improved Dodge: +1%/+2%/+3% Dodge when wearing light or no armor.

• Tier 4

• Dark Ascendant Bite: Your Vampiric Bite now applies 5 stacks of Vulnerability. If the target of your Vampiric Bite is Cowered, they take double the piercing damage and if the target is living and corporeal they must make a Fortitude Saving Throw (DC 16 + Highest of CON/INT/CHA Mod + Stunning Bonuses + Necromancy Bonuses) or die.

• SLA: Crushing Dread: Target enemy at touch range takes 1d6+8 Evil Damage per Caster Level. Additionally, if the target is inside a Dread Mist zone it deals 1d20 Evil Damage for each stack of Growing Dread that creature has. Will save for half damage on each effect. Level 4 Necromancy. 8 Spell Points, 15 second cooldown.

• Form of the Lord Vampire: While you have Embrace Death toggled, you gain +1 Enchantment and Necromancy DC, +10 Negative and Force Spell Power, and +10 Spell Penetration.

• Biting Swarm: Living, corporeal enemies affected by your Rush of Bats are bitten by the bats, causing them to bleed, taking 1d12 damage every 2 seconds for 12 seconds. This damage scales with 200% Melee Power.

• (Intentionally Blank)

• Iconic Past Life Stance: +1 to Necromancy DCs and +5 Negative Spell Power per stack of this Past Life. Passive Bonus: +1 Saving Throw vs. Enchantments per stack of this Past Life. This feat can be stacked up to three times.

• Additionally, Dark Bargainer Dhampir have access to an exclusive Pact: The Dark Powers. It is not mandatory to take a Dark Power, you may still select another Pact. If you Lesser Reincarnate into an Acolyte of the Skin, you cannot take The Dark Powers as Acolyte requires a specific Pact.

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Variable

Acquired at Level

Dark Powers

Alignment Restriction

(character creation)

None

Eldritch Blast Pact Damage (default color)

+1d6 every even level (= total 10d6 at Lvl 20)

Evil (Teal)

Pact Damage Save*

• Will

Pact Save Bonus

+1 at 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20 (= total +5 at Lvl 20)

Will ("Bargainer's Force of Will")

1st-level Spell

Level 2

NEW: Dread Mist: Create a small area of Mist that lasts for 20 seconds. Enemies inside the mist have their movement slowed by 20%, -2 to Will Saving Throws, and take 1d2 Evil Damage per Caster Level every 2 seconds. (Necromancy spell, 5sec cooldown, MCL 20. 10 SP) Casts fast.

2nd-level Spell

Level 5

Lesser Death Aura

First Special Ability

Level 6

Mist Favored: Your Dread Mists' damage changes to 1d3 per Caster Level. This increases to 1d4 at Character Level 12.

3rd-level Spell

Level 9

Negative Energy Burst

4th-level Spell

Level 14

Death Aura

Second Special Ability

Level 15

Call on the Mists: Enemies in a small area who are currently affected by Dread Mist must make a saving throw (DC 15 + highest of INT or CHA mod + Necromancy Bonuses) or die, being consumed by the mists. 20 Spell Points, 25 second cooldown.

5th-level Spell

Level 17

NEW: Dust to Dust: (This is Disintegrate. But Necromancy-schooled.)

6th-level Spell

Level 19

Greater Death Aura

Dark Gifts Feats:

• The Dhampir Dark Bargainer gets a Racial Feat Slot to take a Dark Bargain feat for free. In fact, they MUST take one!

• Dark Gift Feats are all ML1.

• A character may only have one Dark Gift feat.

• Fred will function with Dark Gifts and you can swap out a Dark Gift for another Dark Gift.

• Dark Gift Feats represent a bargain you've made with the Dark Powers and are intentionally stronger or more flexible than many standard feats. However, being a pact with the Dark Powers, each of them comes with a relatively unavoidable and significant cost:

• Echoing Soul

• Your soul is fractured, shifted, or connected to another in some way. Perhaps your past or future is affecting your present soul, or perhaps some other entity is inextricably linked with you. In any case, it manifests in knowledge and fears that aren't your own.

• +3 to all Skills plus an additional 1 for every 2 Character Levels you have.

• +1 to all Saving Throws, plus an additional 1 for every 3 Character Levels you have.

• When you get hit with Melee or Ranged attacks, there is a _very _small chance your Echoing Soul will cause you to become Afraid, Blinded, or Immobilized for six seconds with no save. Immunities to these conditions do not apply to this effect. Your echoes will grow louder before this happens giving you some warning.

• Living Shadow

• Your Shadow extends your reach, acting out your dark impulses.

• Your basic Melee attacks have extended range, hitting further in front of you.

• Whenever you land a Critical Hit, there is a small chance your shadow exerts its will, causing your damage to be reduced by 15% for 6 seconds. This can only occur once every 30 seconds.

• This is the same extension effect that Shadowdancer grants, and does not stack with that skill.

• Mist Walker

• You have learned how to navigate the Mists with time and a little luck.

• You gain Misty Step: As Abundant Step, but you disappear. +5 Reflex Save and 20% stacking incorporeality while Stepping. (Shares a cooldown with other abundant steps). 15 second cooldown.

• When you use this Misty Step, there is a chance the Mists catch up with you and you gain Exhaustion for 6 seconds (-50% penalty to movement speed, -6 penalty to Strength and Dexterity, and cannot tumble). This exhaustion cannot be warded or removed by effects that remove Exhaustion.

• Touch of Death

• Your every touch is pain, but you can use that to deliver death to enemies.

• +3 Negative Spell Power per Character Level

• +3 Negative Healing Amplification per Character Level

• -5 Positive Spell Power per Character Level

• -5 Positive Healing Amplification per Character Level

• Form of Pain

• Your body is cursed to be prone to all manner of damage, but with the ability to withstand it.

• Passively grants +5 PRR/MRR

• When you take damage your body changes and you gain the Form of Pain effect which grants +2 Physical Resistance Rating/Magical Resistance Rating but also reduces movement speed and increases spell costs by 1% as the pain distracts you. This can stack 10 times, with one stack being removed every 5 seconds.

• Webtouched Wretch

• You've become entwined with a great cosmic web, which occasionally becomes coterminous with reality.

• Your offensive spells, melee and ranged attacks attacks occasionally cause strange spectral webs coat your enemies either slowing them or entangling them for up to six seconds with no save.

• This does not work on bosses, raid bosses, or oozes but will work on incorporal or fiery creatures which are normally immune to web, including monsters or Champi

Update 73.4 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 73.4, released on Wednesday, June 4th, 2025.

News and Notes:

Ranged Meta Balance:

• Attack Speed Modifiers will no longer function for Inquisitive crossbow styles when No Holds Barred and Endless Fusillade are active.

• We estimate a typical Legendary character displaying a 50% attack speed modifier in the stats+ page after this pass going from a bolt firing every 0.25 seconds to a bolt firing every 0.3 seconds, which will match how these skills operate for other crossbow styles like Repeating Crossbows. The end result is about a 20% adjustment in attack speed. Heroic characters with less attack speed modifiers will feel the impact of this change less. A fire rate of 0.3 seconds for a projectile is probably going to be a bit of a "floor" for us, since the engine starts to reach limits when attack speed gets much faster.

• Your fire rate outside of when No Holds Barred or Endless Fusillade are active should be unaffected.

• Precise Shot now grants all bows (long and short) a 50% stat mod adjustment, much like two handed weapons.

• Bows will hit harder per projectile and be a little like the 2 handers of the ranged meta.

• This is a passive function and does not care what toggles you have on.

General changes:

• Various monster and henchmen AI adjustments have been made to address expensive behaviors:

• Monsters when Feared will now only go up to 15 meters away from the player, and will in general behave in a much more "panicking in place" fashion.

• Monsters who would flee when perched also panic in place more instead of trying to find a location far away.

• This fix really applies to what happens when a fear spell or character ability is used; quest makers typically make such monsters flee in more controlled ways.

• We've fixed or improved several things with the hirelings Teal, Darling, and Rana.

• This aims to correct "expensive" behaviors during situations when they could not reach their owner.

• This applies to situations like swimming, ledge jumping, teleporting, or struggling to path.

• Cosmetic toggle feats now have their own feat category called Cosmetics.

• All Hardcore season cosmetic reward toggles granted by Mortality now bestow a permanent feat on the player that persists through Reincarnation. Players who currently have temporary feats can speak to Mortality to upgrade to the new permanent version. This also affects Year of the Dragon Cosmetics and VIP cosmetic rewards. It does not include the reaper wings/eyes because those use a different delivery/purchase method.

• The VIP Cloud Mount now appears correctly in the focus orb.

• Players can now speak to Violet Peregrine in the Eberron Hall of Heroes to acquire the Storm Cloud mount on any game world.

• THE OTHER IMPOSSIBLE CASE IS NOW LESS POSSIBLE.

• The Precise Shot feat now also passively increases the ability score modifier to damage of Longbows and Shortbows by 50%.

• Arcanist Kiton will now only speak to one adventurer at a time in the quest "Covered Culvert".

• An issue has been corrected in the quest "Sleeping with the Fishes" that could cause the quest to be unable to be completed during the final boss fight.

• Interacting with a Relay Mirror while holding your Block button now rotates the mirror in the opposite direction.

Update 73.3 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 73.3, released on Wednesday, May 14th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

The final quest in the Tavern Tales quest bundle has arrived!

Things are getting tense in the Stormreach Fish Market as local Sahuagin struggle with the Kobold Union for control. Bring order to the chaos in an adventure with multiple possible endings!

Speak with Aramond d'Lyrandar in the Lower Harbor near where you arrive from Korthos Island to get started. "Sleeping with the Fishes" is level 3 on Heroic difficulty and level 35 on Legendary difficulty. Tavern Tales is FREE to VIPs and available in the DDO Store. Each of the three quests in the Quest Bundle is available to purchase separately in the DDO Store, and you can get a discount by purchasing the full Quest Bundle.

News and Notes:

• The VIP Bag of Many Things has been updated. Players who have not yet opened their VIP Bag(s) of Many Things will now receive the following, and all new VIP Bag of Many Things items will contain the following:

• NEW: 3 Jeweler's Tool Kits

• NEW: 3 Sentient Unslotters

• NEW: 5 Greater Slayer Count Boost Elixirs

• Raid Bypass Timer

• Ethereal Rest Shrine Statuette

• Flawless Siberys Dragonshard (Feat swap token)

• Sentient XP Gem Worth Sentient XP

• CHANGED: Glamerdust x80 (up from 50)

• Mirror of Glamering

• Omnispell Dust x2500

• Legendary Raid Bypass Timer

• Quest Toil and Trouble:

• Doing the main objectives now properly finishes and gives credit for completing the quest.

• The chest for completing the "Rededicate the Shrine" objective now opens properly upon completion of the objective.

• Corrected a display and clarity issue with the "Rededicate the Shrine" objective; the interactable objective should now be more clear and provide improved feedback when you click.

• There is now a teleportation option at the barrier to the end fight for groups and returning players in the quest.

• Fixed issues that caused "The Mark of Death" to be closed. This raid is once again available. This fix should also correct other cases where bosses could lose aggro inappropriately under certain teleportation conditions.

• Corrected an issue with Map focus and behavior during resizing.

• The VIP Loyalty Reward Program UI now has a minimum size to prevent display issues.

Update 73.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 73.1, released on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

Tavern Tales, New Quest Available

Tavern Tales is a Quest Bundle that features new quests which debut over time! Tavern Tales is FREE to VIPs and available in the DDO Store. Each of the three quests in the Quest Bundle is available to purchase separately in the DDO Store, and you can get a discount by purchasing the full Quest Bundle. These quests remain available after their debut.

Now Available! Toil and Trouble - Strange things are happening in The King's Forest! Villagers blame a local hag, but it's up to you to discover the far more sinister truth. Speak with Jarra Morand in Eveningstar, near the gate to the King's Forest, to get started. Toil and Trouble is level 5 on Heroic difficulty and level 28 on Epic difficulty.

Debuts April 30th:

Covered Culvert - City workers have discovered a previously unexplored section in the Sunken Sewers. There's just one problem: the sewer is infested with swarms of deadly vermin, and it's up to you to sort things out. Speak with Burton Furst in the Marketplace by the Steam Tunnels, next to Wayfinder Dael. Covered Culvert will be level 4 on Heroic difficulty and level 35 on Legendary difficulty.

Debuts May 14th:

Sleeping with the Fishes - Things are getting tense in the Stormreach Fish Market as local Sahuagin struggle with the Kobold Union for control. Bring order to the chaos in an adventure with multiple possible endings! Speak with Aramond d'Lyrandar in the Lower Harbor near where you arrive from Korthos Island to get started. Sleeping with the Fishes will be level 3 on Heroic difficulty and level 35 on Legendary difficulty.

News and Notes:

General changes

• Adjustments have been made to the way enemies attempt to track characters under certain invisibility and stealth conditions, including when an enemy is in a Blind state. These changes address a long term performance issue that was increasing over time that could cause significant "brain dead" behaviors and other enemy pathing problems. Enemies will now chase an echo of your location when Blind or when you are Invisible or decently "stealthing away". Blind enemies will continue to have their standard 50% miss chance. Ranged attackers will try to get closer to you, and turreted enemies will fire at your echo to reduce their effectiveness. NOTE: None of these changes impact the Stealth experience for characters who were never seen in the first place. These changes only impact enemies who already hate you but cannot see you very well for a variety of reasons. Additional adjustments can be expected over time."

• Fixed the generator scaling in a number of dungeons that weren't spawning enough monsters on elite/reaper

• Den of Vipers - Several balance and bug changes have been made as follows:

• Hydra physical bite damage greatly reduced

• Hydra armor class on elite modestly reduced

• Impact splash crushing damage from turning drastically reduced

• Death Watch Skulls do less damage and tick less fast. The Hydra now greatly prefers to spawn its Watchers on targets who are not in melee range

• Hydra acid stacking dot and general spell attack damage also reduced

• Hydra now has true sight as is standard on raid bosses.

• One of the hydras attacks that wasn't hitting quite at the range it was before now has been fixed.

• Hydra inflict mist to the raid more if you kite me to much behavior is modestly less frequent.

• Spirit Naga that appears in one of the transition rooms on reaper is no longer a mini boss and has had it's stats reduced.

• Inquisitive:

• Improved Uncanny Dodge now properly grants the passive dodge bonuses at level 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, and 20 as claimed.

• The enhancement "Hit the Streets" now properly gives +5 Doubleshot.

• Jaded, Optimistic, and Vigilante now grant +5 Ranged Power (was 10).

• Undaunted now grants +5 Ranged Power (was 10).

• The Patience feat now also reduces Crossbow Reload Speed by 10%.

• Fixed an issue where Evards Black Tentacles could interact badly with Double Rainbow or Colors of the Queen. As a consequence, the list of effects that Double Rainbow and Colors of the Queen can produce has been adjusted in the process. Several have been removed that either did not work or had negative effects on the player/their allies (like friendly fire), and new ones have been added that do not have this issue. Double Rainbow has also had several effects removed from it's random matrix including an effect that could break the melee damage array of many monsters (including bosses), and effects that could spawn incidental woodland animals that would follow the target around and linger past it's death.

• Warlock Tainted Scholar's Blood Component no longer lists +10% speed with Eldritch Blast (as that doesn't work or exist), and instead now grants +1d8 Eldritch Blast Damage.

• Eldritch Blast (Focused), the basic Eldritch Blast shape, has had its scaling increased to 150%. (Other blast shapes remain at their current value).

• Solar Gems of Spell Critical Damage now properly grant their listed +(5/10/15)% Legendary Bonus to Spell Critical Damage, and now stack correctly with other Legendary Bonuses to SpelL Critical Damage.

• Items that recently lost their Minimum Level have regained it.

• Fixed a mess of CC effects that self purge abilities would not dispel correctly for either monster or player.

• Shiradi's Champion - Change to Inexorable Advance - Damage on cold and light procs increased from 3d100+180 to 10d100+180. 100% double rainbow procs have been removed due to it causing server/client hitchs when used on conjuction with various rapid fire abilities.

• Fix issues where if a player teleported to their soul stone in certain parts of the rat dungeons while dead their client would get stuck and hang.

Update 73 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 73: Tavern Tales, released on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025.

Of Special Note:

A new series of quests debuts!

Tavern Tales is a Quest Bundle that features new quests which debut over time! Tavern Tales is FREE to VIPs and available in the DDO Store. Each of the three quests in the Quest Bundle is available to purchase separately in the DDO Store, and you can get a discount by purchasing the full Quest Bundle. These quests remain available after their debut.

Free and Available Now:

Dinosaur Crisis - A horde of dinosaurs gather outside Stormreach! What's behind this sinister development? Venture into the jungle to find out—and face the Ettin, a brand-new monster making its debut in DDO! This creature was chosen by the community during our 2024 PAX East panel, and now it’s ready to challenge adventurers in this all-new quest. Speak with Regina Vencyl in the Stormreach Harbor to begin. Dinosaur Crisis is level 13 on Heroic difficulty and level 28 on Epic difficulty.

The Tavern Tales Quest Bundle Debuts April 16th:

Toil and Trouble - Strange things are happening in The King's Forest! Villagers blame a local hag, but it's up to you to discover the far more sinister truth. Speak with Jarra Morand in Eveningstar, near the gate to the King's Forest, to get started. Toil and Trouble will be level 5 on Heroic difficulty and level 28 on Epic difficulty.

Debuts April 30th:

** Covered Culvert **- City workers have discovered a previously unexplored section in the Sunken Sewers. There's just one problem: the sewer is infested with swarms of deadly vermin, and it's up to you to sort things out. Speak with Burton Furst in the Marketplace by the Steam Tunnels, next to Wayfinder Dael. Covered Culvert will be level 4 on Heroic difficulty and level 35 on Legendary difficulty.

Debuts May 14th:

**Sleeping with the Fishes **- Things are getting tense in the Stormreach Fish Market as local Sahuagin struggle with the Kobold Union for control. Bring order to the chaos in an adventure with multiple possible endings! Speak with Aramond d'Lyrandar in the Lower Harbor near where you arrive from Korthos Island to get started. Sleeping with the Fishes will be level 3 on Heroic difficulty and level 35 on Legendary difficulty.

News and Notes:

General changes

• Fixed display issues with the Echoes of the Black Rose supporter pack helm cosmetic for Dragonborn and Elves.

• Fixed an issue where part of the special effects on the Echoes of the Black Rose supporter pack mace were not displaying.

• Fall of the Night Brigade: Fix issues where if a player teleported to their soul stone in certain parts of the dungeons while dead, their game client would get stuck and hang.

• Den of Vipers Raid:

• The Teleport Blocker effect Domain of Dread will now remove itself on players who exit the quest by recall or lost connection.

• A pit located against the north wall outside of the temple has been fixed.

• There is now an exit waypoint at the start of the raid.

• The shadow demons no longer have empty titles.

• The hydra's head and circle mechanics have had their logic improved to prevent getting stuck.

• Hydra heads that drop after they've already had their spirits sealed in the circle will fade quickly with action text feedback and cause the boss to burn its stump.

• Hydra no longer drop more than one head at a time to prevent logic breaking when massive damage per second is applied. The hydra's regeneration will keep its Hit Points above the next head threshhold until you resolve the current head.

• Thieves tools in the DDO Store should now be visible for classes other than rogue.

• VFX Cosmetics such as wings, eyes will no longer appear when in rat form.

• Frogo's hat will no longer float over him if he's in rat form.

• Quest: Kind of Big Deal - Adjusted Height of 2nd Trap Box.

• Endless Fusillade is now spelled correctly in all places it is referenced.

• In the quest 'The Evil We Know', the portal leading into the Chamber of the Shadow now properly teleport you into the Chamber of the Shadow.

• Fixed a typo in the dialog of the Year of the Dragon claim NPC.

• Tweak to fire beetles to not use fireball until epic difficulty unless they are oversized.

• Fixed a graphical issue in the Character creation flow with some buttons being partially cut off.

• Quest: Best Laid Plans - Several changes have been made to the quest for performance and in response to feedback:

• Reduced Number of Breakables, and reduced Required number of breakables, for performance reasons

• Reduced Number of Tacticians in several waves

• Slowed Speed of Constructs

• Reduced Number of Monsters in certain wave encounters.

• Updated Monster Count for Conquest Bonus to account for the above changes in Monsters in combat waves.

• It will no longer be possible to use XP stones on the Heart of Wind (the airship you start on as a new character). This is to prevent confusion with using XP stones before you speak with the NPC during veteran status. The stones will operate normally once you leave the Heart of Wind.

• The Patron Coffer NPC is now able to talk with more than one person at once.

• The Optional chests in Threats Old and New and Den of Vipers now drop ingredients 100% of the time.

• Dragon Lord:

• Draconic Conviction and Might in Order Rank 2 and 3 can now be taken properly.

• Monk, Dragon Disciple, & Grandmaster of Flowers

• Clear Your Mind Rank 2 and 3 can now be taken properly.

• Dragon Disciples now properly adjust their Maximum Spell Points with their Wisdom.

• Grandmaster of Flowers' Core 4 (Dark Version) now properly lets you take Dismissing Strike.

• Greater Hand of Healing now properly removes Blindness, Curses, and Diseases.

• Touch of Death's description now correctly states that it deals Poison damage.

• Fire-based Dragon Disciple spells now properly ignite targets that can be ignited.

• Cold-based Dragon Disciple spells now properly extinguish targets that can be extinguished.

• Ninja Spy's No Mercy now costs 1AP/Rank.

• Grandmaster of Flowers' Core 4 versions of Stunning Blow and Stunning Fist now deal 1d10 per character level.

• Grandmaster of Flowers' Core 4 versions of Stunning Fist now use the highest of your STR/DEX/WIS modifier for their DC.

• Grandmaster of Flowers' Core 4 now correctly states that you must have the Stunning Blow and/or Stunning Fist feats to get their respective upgraded versions.

• Grandmaster of Flowers' Core 4 now correctly uses the name of the Path abilities it simulates.

• Dragon Disciples can now properly take Spell Focus: Conjuration and Spell Focus: Transmutation with Monk Bonus Feat slots

• Draconic Devastation's Fear component now applies properly

• Henshin Mystic's Elemental Words: Static Charge now properly applies Sonic vulnerability

• Henshin Mystic's Kata abilities now have tooltip text stating that they require you to be Centered.

• Shadow Double's bonuses now stack with other sources.

• Dragon Disciples can now properly take Improved Mental Toughness if they have 10 levels in the class (enough to cast 3rd level spells).

• Dragon Disciples can now properly take Cast on the Run and Heighten if they have 6 levels in the class (enough to cast 2nd level spells).

• Fixed a display issue with prerequisites on Monk attack+damage lines.

• Kata of Ice and Kata of Dark Stars have had their cooldowns corrected to the intended values.

• Dragon Disciple's Flawless Breathing - for real this time - now properly applies its Spell Critical portion.

• Dragon Disciple's Way of the Mighty Dragon III now gives the correct caster level bonus to Lesser Draconic Burst.

• Dragon Disciple's Channel the Enlightened Dragon and Channel the Raging Dragon now have 9 second cooldowns.

• Fixed several Monk and Dragon Disciple skills where the class level required did not match the tree level it was in.

• Fixed keymapping for HENCHMAN_BAR5_KEY5. If you have keybindings set for "Hireling Bar 5, Slot 4" or "Hireling Bar 5, Slot 5" please double check your Key Mappings in the Options panel.

Update 72.1 Release Notes

Welcome to the release notes for Update 72.1, released on Wednesday, March 11th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

New Free Raid: Den of Vipers

A Darklord of the Silith-tar domain called the Five Fangs is attempting to escape. Help the Order of the Guardians defeat them in a new free raid, available for players level 20 or higher on all game worlds. The raid "Den of Vipers" is a Legendary difficulty raid at CR 36. There are no pre-requisites to run the raid. Speak with Garzin Panoplus in the Eberron Hall of Heroes near the fountain in the western wing!

This raid concludes the story that has been playing out in our Lanterns in the Mists event on Cormyr, which you can read more about (https://www.ddo.com/news/ddo-cormyr-free-access). Free access continues through April 15th to Cormyr! After April 15th, the Lanterns in the Mists event will come to an end. See the story and its conclusion now!

News and Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• The character creation flow now properly checks to see if you've spoken with the Year of the Dragon NPC Xatheral before you create a Dragon Disciple.

• If you already made a Dragon Disciple, don't forget to speak with Xatheral downstairs in the Hall of Heroes before Year of the Dragon ends on March 25th to claim your free access to the Dragon Disciple Archetype.

• The text in the Reincarnation UI and Hearts of Wood and Blood tooltips have been updated to match our recently changed XP tables.

• Antirequisites for Trance enhancements have been updated.

• The icon for Shintao's Fast Hands: Ranged has been fixed.

• Ninja Spy

• Deadly Striker now properly adds crit multiplier with Kama, Shortswords, and Shuriken.

• Touch of Death now properly adds +3 to Attack and Damage (and no longer drops your existing bonuses to Attack and Damage.)

• Improved Archer's Focus now properly grants its passive Ranged Power.

• To Seek Perfection now properly grants its Ranged Power if you have Meditation of War.

• Horizon Walker's Hunter's Focus now works properly when you have the Ninja Spy version of Improved Archer's Focus.

• Dragon Disciple

• SLAs now display their DCs correctly.

• Level 4 spells should now properly appear in your Dragon Disciple spellbook after taking Level 15 without needing to relog.

• Core 3 now properly grants True Seeing.

• Flawless Breathing now properly grants its spell crit

• Dragon's Devotion II now properly adds Shaken on Breath casts

• Fist of the Dragon

• Now scales its damage properly

• Now gives its passive bonuses properly

• Draconic Apotheosis

• Now gives its passive bonuses properly.

• No longer lists a nonexistent +1 to Critical Threat Range, and now properly lists the +1 Critical Multiplier on a 19-20 it's already giving.

• Now properly grants its listed +5% Spell Crit Damage and +2 to all Ability Scores.

• Spells and SLAs that benefit from multiple Spell Schools at once (such as Dragon Disciple's breaths, which use both a standard Spell School and Breath Weapon) now calculate their DC correctly.

• Adjusted effect icons from effects added with Dragon Disciple and the Monk changes.

• Henshin Mystic's Exemplar now properly grants its 5/10/15% Attack Speed with Quarterstaves.

• Henshin Mystic's Serenity no longer erroneously grants +15% Attack Speed with Quarterstaves.

• Improved Hands of Healing now properly applies Lesser Restoration.

• Fixed an issue where Creature Companions who were wolves, dogs, or hyenas looked like undead.

Update 72 Release Notes

Welcome to the release notes for Update 72: Balance the Scales, released on Wednesday, February 26th, 2025.

Of Special Note:

Celebrating Our 19th Anniversary!

This year marks the 19th Anniversary for Dungeons & Dragons Online, and we are celebrating with special bonuses, the return of our Anniversary Event, free gifts, and more!

The Anniversary Event has returned! Find the portal to the Anniversary Event next to Gnoa Bn'for near the Phiarlan Chapterhouse. The Anniversary Event runs through March 18th, 2025.

We have two weeks of bonuses!

Now through March 11th, get:

• +19% Heroic and Epic XP

• +19% Guild Renown

• +19% Reaper XP

• +19% Crafting XP

Additionally, starting on March 5th through March 11th we'll have a Champion Hunter Week! Find the Mysterious Remnants Vendor in the Eberron Hall of Heroes.

Reminder: Free access to our 64-bit Cormyr server continues through April 15th! Read more about this server and its Lanterns in the Mists event on DDO.com.

Year of the Dragon: Free Dragon Disciple!

Make sure to claim your FREE Dragon Disciple monk archetype! Starting February 26th through March 25th, 2025, speak to Xatheral in the Eberron Hall of Heroes to add the class archetype to your account. Read more about the Dragon Disciple lower in the release notes.

Free Anniversary Gifts!

Now through March 18th, 2025, speak to the Djinni in House Phiarlan to claim your free 19th Anniversary Scarf, and keep coming back for a buff! The scarf can be acquired once per day per character, and you can pick up as many scarves as many times as you wish during the Anniversary Event's run. The Djinni can also be found in the Eberron Hall of Heroes across from the guild ship access point. You may also speak with the Djinni to receive a +10% Discovery boost for six hours, which provides a +10% chance to receive named loot that stacks with Elixirs of Discovery. You can speak to the Djinni again to re-acquire this buff for as long as the Anniversary Event is active (through March 18th!)

News and Notes:

Monk Changes:

• Overall Class Adjustments​

• The Monk Combo System and its builders/finishers has been retired. Many of its effects have moved into the Monk Enhancement Trees.

• Monks still gain their Stances and your choice of Light vs. Dark Path. However, the Light vs. Dark Path choice no longer gives something specific on being taken, but opens up enhancement choices at Tier 3 in each Monk Enhancement Tree.

• Quivering Palm's DC now uses Strength if it is highest (highest of Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom Modifier)

• Stunning Fist's DC now uses the highest of Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom.

• The Unarmed Strike Feat now grants +5 Melee Power while Centered and using Handwraps for each copy of the feat you have.

• The Sun and Stars item effect now reads "When you activate Hand of Healing or Hand of Harm from the Shintao enhancement tree, you benefit from increased Melee Power and Positive Healing Amplification for a short time."

• Core 4 of Grandmaster of Flowers is now:

• Disciple of Philosophy: Multiselector:

• Disciple of Philosophy: Light: +3% Dodge Bypass, +10 Magical Resistance Rating Cap. You gain special versions of the Stunning Blow and Stunning Fist feats, which deal 1d10 Light damage on hit that scales with 200% Melee Power. (Note: these appear as separate feats in your feat list.) You may take Monk enhancements that require Fists of Light.

• Disciple of Philosophy: Dark: +3% Dodge Bypass, +10 Magical Resistance Rating Cap. You gain special versions of the Stunning Blow and Stunning Fist feats, which deal 1d10 Poison damage on hit that scales with 200% Melee Power. (Note: these appear as separate feats in your feat list.) You may take Monk enhancements that require Fists of Darkness.

• Action Point costs across Ninja Spy, Shintao, and Henshin Mystic have been reduced, primarily in Tier 5 of each tree.

• Ninja Spy​

• Cores:

• Poisoned Darts now reads "Ki Activate: You spit poisoned darts in a cone before you. Nearby enemies are affected by between 4 and 8 stacks of Ninja Poison. (Magical Poison: Target takes 1d4 points of Poison damage, which scales with the higher of Melee and Ranged Power every 3 seconds for 15 seconds. The target’s vulnerability to poison is increased by 5%. This ability can stack up to 20 times. On timer expiration, 4 stacks of Ninja Poison are removed at a time.) (Activation Cost: 15 Ki. Cooldown: 12 seconds)"

• Diversion no longer has its Critical bonus (moved to Tier 5). Instead, it has +5 Melee and Ranged Power.

• Ninja Master now also has "+10% Fortification Bypass, +15 Melee and Ranged Power. If you have Self Defense, you gain an additional +10 Melee Power".

• Tier 1:

• Ninjutsu is removed, and replaced by the new Ninjutsu: +1 to Attack and Damage while Centered. (Antireq: Shintao Studies and Henshin Training. Essentially, you can only take one Attack+Damage line.)

• Subtlety now also reduces Ranged Threat by the same amount.

• Tier 2:

• Ninjutsu is removed, and replaced by the new Ninjutsu: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• Elemental Ki Strikes is has been removed (it still exists in Shintao). It is replaced with Extra Action Boost: +1/2/3 Action Boosts.

• Action Boost: Melee/Ranged Power is now a multiselector with Action Boost: Haste.

• Tier 3:

• Ninjutsu is removed, and replaced by the new Ninjutsu: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• Flash Bang is removed, and replaced by Shadow Arts:

• Light Path: Flash Bang: Ki Bomb Spell-Like Ability: Throws a fragile eggshell imbued with ninja magic that explodes into light, blinding opponents for 6 seconds on a failed reflex save and momentarily dazing opponents on a failed fortitude save. Both saving throws have DC equal to (18 + Monk Level + Highest of Strength/Dexterity/Wisdom Modifier + Assassinate DCs). (Activation Cost: 20 Ki. Cooldown: 9 seconds)

• Flash Bang's projectile is now faster.

• Dark Path: Shadow Flurry: Melee Attack: +20% damage. Target must make a saving throw equal to (18 + Monk Level + Highest of Strength/Dexterity/Wisdom Modifier + Assassinate DCs) or have some of their energy temporarily sealed, halving all positive energy healing, reducing its fortification by 25%, and rendering it unable to cast spells. The enemy makes recurring Fortitude saves to shake the effect. Cost: 10 Ki. Cooldown: 9 seconds.

• Tier 4:

• Ninjutsu is removed, and replaced by the new Ninjutsu: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• Deadly Exploits is removed, and replaced with Greater Shadow Arts:

• Light Path: Cloak of Shadows: After using Flash Bang, you become Invisible for 3 seconds which is not broken by actions.

• Dark Path: Poison Exploit: On a failed saving throw, your Touch of Despair purges an enemy of Ninja Poison, dealing 1d20 + 20 poison damage per stack of Ninja Poison removed. Scales with higher of Melee/Ranged Power. (This factors in the damage boost from Deadly Exploit as well.)

• Tier 5:

• Touch of Death now reads: You strike a living opponent down with twisted ki, dealing +50% damage and 500 additional Poison damage that scales with 200% Melee Power. Your opponent takes half damage on a successful Fortitude save (DC = 14 + Monk Level + Highest of Strength/Dexterity/Wisdom Modifier + Assassinate DCs). Cooldown: 15 seconds). Passive: +3 to Hit and Damage while Centered.

• Deadly Striker now reads: "While you are centered, you gain a +1 Competence bonus to Critical Threat Range and Multiplier. Kamas, Shortswords, and Shuriken gain an additional +1 Critical Threat Range."

• Self Defense is now a multiselector with Improved Archer's Focus: Your Archer's Focus stance can now stack up to 25 times instead of 15. Passive: +10 Ranged Power.

• Shadow Double is no longer a Melee Attack. Instead, it's an activated ability that grants +50% Doublestrike, +50% Doubleshot, and +5 Assassinate DCs for 12 seconds. (Activation Cost: 30 Ki. Cooldown: 25 seconds)

• Shintao​

• Cores:

• Cores remain the same, except all abilities that say with Handwraps now say while Centered.

• To Seek Perfection's "You no longer suffer penalties from Meditation of War" is removed (see below) and replaced with "If you have Meditation of War, +10 Melee and Ranged Power".

• Tier 1:

• Elemental Curatives is replaced with Shintao Studies: +1 to Attack and Damage while Centered. (Antireq: Ninjutsu and Henshin Training. Essentially, you can only take one Attack+Damage line.)

• Ki Shout is removed (moved to HM), and replaced with NEW: Fast Hands (Multiselector): +1/2/3% Doublestrike OR Doubleshot

• Exemplar is removed (moved to HM), and replaced with Negotiator currently found in Henshin Mystic. Negotiator now grants Intimidate instead of Haggle.

• Deft Strikes is now a multiselector with Improved Second Strikes:+[5/10/20]% Strikethrough.

• Tier 2:

• Elemental Curatives is replaced with Shintao Studies: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• Elemental Ki Strikes are no longer combo builders, but otherwise remain unchanged.

• Conditioning is removed (moved to HM), and replaced with Quick Strike currently found in Henshin Mystic. Quick Strike is no longer restricted to Quarterstaves, but you must be Centered.

• Tier 3:

• Elemental Curatives is replaced with Shintao Studies: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• NEW: Hands of Mercy (Multiselector):

• Light Path: Hand of Healing: You heal all nearby allies for 1d4 plus 1d4 per monk level. (9 second cooldown, costs 5 Ki)

• Dark Path: Hand of Harm: Melee Attack: This attack is a guaranteed critical strike. You strike your opponent down with a terrible curse, halving all positive energy healing done to the target, reducing its fortification by 25%. Periodic Fortitude saves (14 + Strength/Dexterity/Wisdom Modifier + Monk Level + Stunning Bonuses) to negate. (9 second cooldown, costs 10 Ki)

• Dismissing Strike has its AP cost reduced to 1, because it's extremely situational

• Tier 4:

• Elemental Curatives is replaced with Shintao Studies: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• NEW: Greater Mercies (Multiselector):

• Light Path: Greater Hand of Healing: Your Hand of Healing now applies a Lesser Restoration effect and removes Blindness, Curses, and Diseases.

• Dark Path: Greater Hand of Harm: Targets affected by your Hand of Harm are also Blinded and Nauseated until they save.

• Tier 5:

• Empty Hand Mastery becomes Shintao Mastery, which does the same thing but "and wielding Handwraps" is removed.

• Kukan-Do now reads: You lock gazes with an enemy, stunning them for a short period of time on a failed Will save (DC 14 + Wisdom modifier + Monk level). Any effects that modify your Stunning Blow or Stunning Fist DC's also affect this ability. Sightless creatures are unaffected by this ability. (Cooldown: Unchanged)

• The penalties from Meditation of War are removed. It also gains +3 to Attack and Damage in addition to its other effects.

• Henshin Mystic​

• Cores:

• Riddle of Fire now gains "While you are centered, you can use your Wisdom modifier to hit" in addition to its other effects.

• The casting time on Ki Bolt is reduced. Ki Bolt also gains "While you are centered, you can use your Wisdom modifier for damage. In addition, while you are centered, you gain +2 Ki each time you hit a creature. This stacks with all other sources of Ki generation"

• Sounding Staff is now Cauldron of Flame. Most of it remains the same, but "you personally gain +20 PRR, +10 MRR, and +15% Dodge that ignores Dodge Cap" changes to "you personally gain PRR equal to your Monk level, MRR equal to your Monk level, and Dodge that ignores Dodge Cap equal to 5 + half your Monk Level."

• Cauldron of Flame is now Improved Cauldron: The cooldown timer on Cauldron of Flames is now halved. You may now move a small range outside your Cauldron without it collapsing.

• Serenity removes the text "and wielding a Quarterstaff" and replaces it with "and Centered", letting you gain the bonus crit while in the Cauldron with other weapons. The Attack Speed for Quarterstaves is removed (see Cauldron of Flame).

• Tier 1:

• Elemental Words now grants you all four of the attacks, which now share a 6-second cooldown cooldown. The attacks are no longer combo moves, but instead deal 1d6 (Element) damage, plus 1 per Monk Level. It no longer applies stacks of Vulnerable (though still applies the element-specific 10% extra damage).

• Henshin Staff Training is now Henshin Training: +1 to Attack and Damage while Centered. (Antireq: Shintao Studies and Ninjutsu. Essentially, you can only take one Attack+Damage line.)

• Mystic Training is removed (no longer using Finishing Move DCs anywhere) and replaced with Ki Shout (formerly in Shintao)

• Negotiator is removed, and replaced with Exemplar (formerly in Shintao). Exemplar's +10% Threat Generation is removed, and replaced with +5/10/15% Attack Speed with Quarterstaves. Antirequisite: Rogue Acrobatics

• Tier 2:

• Elemental Words is replaced with Elemental Soul: You gain four Imbue toggles, one for each of Fire, Cold, Electric, and Acid. When toggled, you enhance your attacks with Ki, dealing 1d6 (Element) damage on hit, and an additional 1d6 Force damage on crit. Your Ki Spells also apply the (Element) portion of this damage. This damage scales with the highest of Melee and Ranged Power.

• Henshin Staff Training is now Henshin Training: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• Quick Strike moves to Shintao, and is replaced by Embrace the Void, which moves down from Tier 3.

• Elemental Ki Strikes is still here.

• Tier 3:

• Elemental Words is replaced with Mystic Kata:

• Light Path: Kata of Wind: Activate to grant you and nearby allies 20% Concealment for 60 seconds. (9 second cooldown, costs 10 Ki)

• Dark Path: Kata of Ice: Melee Attack: +30% Damage. On hit: Encase a tainted target in ice on a failed Will save for 10 seconds. (DC = 10 + Strength/Dexterity/Wisdom Modifier + Monk level + Stunning DC boosts). Costs 20 Ki, 9 second cooldown

• Henshin Staff Training is now Henshin Training: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• Lighting the Candle is gone, replaced with Conditioning from Shintao.

• NEW: Clear Your Mind: Battle Trance: While Centered, you gain an Insight bonus to Attack, Damage and the DC of Tactical feats equal to 1/2 of your Wisdom modifier for 30/60/120 seconds. Cooldown: 20 seconds. Activation Cost: 35 Ki. The effects of this Trance are dispelled if you are no longer Centered. Antirequisite: This ability can not be trained if you have any other Battle Trance ability (e.g. Know the Angles).

• Tier 4:

• Elemental Words is replaced with Mystic Kata:

• Light Path: Kata of Deep Magic: When you use Kata of Wind, you grant you and other allies a 25% reduction in Spell Point Cost for 60 seconds.

• Dark Path: Kata of Dark Stars: You use the power of the stars to set up harmonic vibrations within your enemy that force them to dance for 12 seconds. (DC = 10 + Strength/Dexterity/Wisdom Modifier + Monk level + Stunning DC boosts). Costs 20 ki, 9 second cooldown

• Henshin Staff Training is now Henshin Training: +1 to Attack and +2 to Damage while Centered.

• Mantra of Soul: +5/10/20 Magical Resistance Rating.

• Tier 5:

• Void Strike is no longer a Void combo builder. Otherwise, remains the same.

• Henshin Staff Training is now Henshin Training: +3 to Attack and Damage.

• Staff Specialization is now Mystic Honing, +1 Competence bonus to Critical Damage Multiplier and Threat Range. Passive: You gain a +25% Competence bonus to maximum hit points.

• Balance In Dawn's attacks are no longer Light/Dark builders.

Dragon Disciple Monk:

• Dragon Disciples are Monks who have devoted themselves to the Way of the Mighty Dragon. While Centered, they can tap into Draconic magic.

• Changes from the Base Monk Class:

• Dragon Disciple's Enhancement Trees are Shintao, Ninja Spy, and Dragon Disciple. (They do not get Henshin Mystic).

• Dragon Disciples gain the Magical Training feat at level 1.

• Dragon Disciples do not gain the Abundant Step feat at level 12. Instead, they gain the Flight of Kings feat: Memories of flight lie within you. You are able to leap through the air to bring the fight to your enemies or traverse chasms that make normal adventure balk. Cooldown: 15 seconds. When you use Flight of Kings, you have a +20% Action Boost bonus to movement speed for 6 seconds.

• Dragon Disciples gain Light Pick, Heavy Pick, Light Hammer, Warhammer, Battle Axe, and Sickle Proficiency at level 4.

• Dragon Disciples do not get Spot as a Class Skill, but gain Spellcraft instead.

• Dragon Disciples do not gain the following automatically granted Monk feats:

• Quivering Palm

• Empty Body

• Perfect Self

• Diamond Body

• Diamond Soul

• Dragon Disciples have a Spellbook (see below).

• Dragon Disciples have the following options for Monk Bonus Feats (level 1, 2, and 6, Dragon Disciple exclusive feats in bold)

• Deflect Arrows

• Diehard

• Dodge

• Lightning Reflexes

• Mobility

• Power Attack

• Precision

• Single Weapon Fighting

• Spring Attack

• Stunning Fist

• Swords to Plowshares

• Toughness

• Two Handed Fighting

• Two Weapon Fighting

• Weapon Finesse

• Whirling Steel Strike

• Spell Focus: Evocation

• Spell Focus: Conjuration

• Spell Focus: Transmutation

• Combat Casting

• Mobile Spellcasting

• (Feats not on the Dragon Disciple list that are on the Monk's list are: Combat Expertise, Discipline, Great Fortitude, Improved Sunder, Improved Trip, Iron Will, Resilience, Shuriken Expertise, Ten Thousand Stars, and Zen Archery. Since Dragon Disciples are Monks, they can pick these up with regular feat slots, if they're so inclined.)

• Past Life Feat: You were a Dragon Disciple in a past life. Others find you strangely compelling when you speak or take to the battlefield. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +1 Attack and -1 to the Spell Point cost of the Maximize Metamagic. This feat can be stacked up to three times.

• Spellcasting:

• Dragon Disciples have their own Spellbook and spell progression.

• Dragon Disciples use Wisdom as their casting stat.

• Casting spells from the Dragon Disciple Spellbook requires you to be Centered.

• Dragon Disciple spells cost Spell Points. They do not cost Ki (though some SLAs in their trees do).

• Dragon Disciples have four levels of spells.

• Dragon Disciples gain all of their spells at a level when they gain the first slot of that level, similar to Rangers.

• Dragon Disciple spells that use Material Components use Ranger components.

• Spell Slots and Points:

• Dragon Disciple Level Spell Points 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

• 1st 20 1 - - -

• 2nd 35 1 - - -

• 3rd 50 2 - - -

• 4th 65 2 - - -

• 5th 80 2 - - -

• 6th 95 2 1 - -

• 7th 110 2 2 - -

• 8th 125 2 2 - -

• 9th 140 2 2 - -

• 10th 155 2 2 1 -

• 11th 170 2 2 1 -

• 12th 185 2 2 1 -

• 13th 200 2 2 1 -

• 14th 215 2 2 2 -

• 15th 230 2 2 2 1

• 16th 245 2 2 2 1

• 17th 260 2 2 2 1

• 18th 275 2 2 2 2

• 19th 290 2 2 2 2

• 20th 350 2 2 2 2

• Dragon Disciple Spells: The new Bursts and Breaths are generally similar, the primary differences in each suite being their element. New Poison spells on this list are Transmutation, while new Acid spells on this list are Conjuration. New Fire, Cold, and Electric spells use Evocation.

• Level 1

• Lesser Draconic Burst: Fire: Centered Ki Breath Attack: You channel Ki to bring forth your Dragon's element in a small burst, hitting all enemies very close to you. Deals 1d6+1 Fire damage per caster level (max 10d6+5 at caster level 10). A successful reflex save reduces